e-Fairness
What is e-Fairness? One of the hottest issues concerning affiliates is the pending enactment of a federal legislation allowing states to treat all retail sales equally - thus the name, e-Fairness. I would like to present in this blog the position of the advocates for the e-Fairnesss law. Then, in succeeding blog, i will discuss the position of those opposing it.
The argument for the e-Fairness states that the current local state tax rules does not provide a level playing field. The law currently in effect does not require Internet and catalog retailers to collect sales taxes unless they have a physical presence such as store or warehouse, in the purchaser's state. This situation, they claim, results to lost of revenues for financially strapped states.
Another main issue in the debate surronding sales tax is the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 which banned taxes on Internet access and muliple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. e-Fairness advocates contend that this Act did not ban the collection of sales and use taxes on the sales made over the Internet. Thus they are opposing the extension of this Moratorium as this has been 'misunderstood'as opposing their point of reasoning.
Many debates are set to be heard on these issues and it would really help for people in the affiliate industry to get involve in these discussions.
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