All Entries Tagged With: "Internet tax"
No Internet Tax Bill Introduced in Congress
To tax or not to tax? That is the question. Taxing access to the Internet, access to email and the like has been looked at by the government for several years now but so far has escaped their grasp. A new bill dubbed “The Internet Tax Freedom Extension Act of 2007″ was introduced in the Senate yesterday. If passed, this bill would extend the current ban on Internet access taxes for another four years.
New IRS Proposal Could Have Negative Impact on E-Commerce
I just came across this story at WebProNews regarding a new IRS proposal that could have a negative impact on e-commerce. Essentially, The U.S. Treasury Department wants to crack down on Internet businesses like eBay and Amazon.com and require them to share their customer’s personal data with the Internal Revenue Service. What data specifically do they want? The obvious – names, addresses, etc. but then the not so obvious, social security numbers.
