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This 16 page paper provides an overview of this debate. Both pro and con arguments are thoroughly examined and The Tax Freedom Act is explained. Mechanics of collection is also discussed. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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now a great debate in Congress concerning taxation but it is not directly about taxing the Internet. It is not as if people are going to be taxed every time
they log onto their Internet Service Providers, although there is chatter about that too. However, no one will not have to pay a few cents for their email deliveries, as
if the government were hijacking the net and treating it as a branch of the U.S. Postal Service. Rather, the problem at hand is since the growth of the Internet,
online shopping has been huge. Competing with catalogers, they get away with a sort of tax loophole. They do not necessarily have to collect it. The general rule is that
catalog companies that sell to customers in another state, where they do not have a brick and mortar facility, can sell the merchandise without collecting the tax. The mail order
sales dilemma is also one that states have been trying to resolve for quite some time (Szabo 70). Often purchases are small and the government has no way
to track such buys. However, technically, when the buyer files his or her income taxes, they are supposed to pay sales tax to their own state. Of course, there is
little chance that this will happen on a large scale. It is a known problem but one that is not enforced. Technically, the tax is not the run of
the mill sales tax, but by law, many states insist that purchasers remit what is called a "use" tax to their own state treasury when they purchase goods in
a different state (Szabo 70). Most businesses do pay these taxes on out-of-state purchases, but compliance by individuals has been spotty, and that is why many states believe that there
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