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Ban On Internet Taxes Scaled Back
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to extend the moratorium on sales taxes on Internet transactions for 2 years; an original bill on the matter would have extended the ban for 5 years, and permanently banned Internet access taxes. (10/11/2001 at InternetNews.com)

Bills Would Keep Web Tax Moratorium
Bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate would ban taxes on online commerce until 2006 and ban Internet access taxes forever. (2/8/2001 at The New York Times)

The End of E-Business as We Know It?
The current moratorium on Internet taxes expires on October 21, 2001; but the Senate may take up the issue again and extend the moratorium when it reconvenes. (10/19/2001 at InternetNews.com)

Net Taxes: Is it Time for a Change?
State governments are busy simplifying their tax codes, hoping that by doing so they'll convince Congress that imposing state sales taxes on goods sold online won't be too complex for website owners to deal with. (12/18/2000 at ZDNet)

Selling a New Net Tax System
Senator Michael Enzi discusses his proposed Internet tax bill, and the dangers of not taxing Internet-based product sales. (11/16/2001 at ZDNet)

States Do Nicely Without Web Tax
Despite fears that untaxable Internet sales would shrink sales tax revenues, states are collecting more tax than ever before, and Internet sales are just 1% of total U.S. retail spending. (2/21/2001 at USA Today)

The Taxman Has Designs on the Net
An interview (with a brick-and-mortar bookseller, a right-wing think tank executive, and a lawyer for the California Taxpayers' Association) about the recently-vetoed California bill that would have taxed some Internet purchases. (9/28/2000 at O'Reilly Network)

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