[Ecommerce] Senate Commerce Internet Tax Markup Score: Retailers 2, McCain 0

[James Love]

http://www.tax.org/text/TaxWire/taxwire.htm#TTN

Senate Commerce Internet Tax Markup Score: Retailers
                                   2, McCain 0

  (Last Updated: June 14, 2000 -- 7:07 p.m.)


A predicted June 15 Senate Commerce Committee markup of an Internet tax
moratorium extension will not happen, a committee source has told Tax
Analysts.

According to committee spokesperson Pia Pialorsi, discussions are
"ongoing" between Commerce Committee Chair John McCain, R-Ariz., and
other committee members, but Internet tax issues are not on the
committee's June 15 agenda. 

"He's still committed to a moratorium and he's trying to get the
strongest bill possible," Pialorsi said of McCain. 

McCain had been pushing for a five-year extension (as introduced in his
bill, S. 2255) of the current Internet Tax Freedom Act moratorium, which
expires on October 21, 2001. However, an intense lobbying effort by the
traditional Main Street retailers of the e-Fairness Coalition and
National Retail Federation stymied his first effort to mark up such a
bill in April, and appears to have scored another victory with the
apparent abandonment of the June 15 markup


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