The Senate shouldn’t attach the Marketplace Fairness Act...
The Senate shouldn’t attach the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) (HR-684) to a bill extending the ban on Internet access taxes during the upcoming lame-duck session, said Executive Director Phil Bond of the Web Enabled Retailers Helping Expand Retail Employment, a…
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retail association for small businesses, in a statement Wednesday. “Sadly, it appears” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will “ask the Senate to do exactly that in December,” said Bond. Such a bill is likely to be Republican Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi’s Marketplace and Internet Tax Fairness Act (MITFA), opponents and supporters of the MFA told us (WID Sept 23 p1). MITFA (S-2609) combines the principles of the MFA, which would let states tax remote sellers with annual revenue topping $1 million, and the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA), which would extend the moratorium on Internet access taxes through Nov. 1, 2024. “Rather than desperately trying to push the onerous and business-killing MFA at the behest of the mega-retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon,” Enzi, Reid and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., should vote only to extend ITFA, Bond said. Durbin is among 14 Senate co-sponsors of MITFA (http://1.usa.gov/1vhgPo8). Amazon and Wal-Mart didn’t comment.