FC: Senate may vote this week on Sen. Mike Enzi's pro-Net-tax bill

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Enzi's bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.01567:

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48250,00.html
   
   Senate Net Tax Vote Looms
   By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
   9:40 a.m. Nov. 8, 2001 PST
   
   WASHINGTON -- The Senate may vote as early as Thursday on a plan that
   would permit states to collect Internet sales taxes.
   
   The bill, championed by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), abandons Capitol
   Hill's hands-off approach to online taxation: It would usher in a
   cavalcade of levies on mail order and Internet purchases.
   
   Enzi admits his Internet Tax Moratorium and Equity Act, which state
   legislators hope will hand them an extra $50 billion or so in tax
   revenue by mid-decade, is controversial. The former footwear
   entrepreneur put it this way in a recent statement: "Leadership isn't
   always easy or popular, it's doing what needs to be done."
   
   Congress had previously banned states from collecting Net taxes, but
   the temporary moratorium expired on Oct. 21.

   [...]



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