[at-l] Fw: Internet Charges

["bogey1" <bogey1@worldlynxyork.net>]

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> From: MARY_JACOBS@udlp.com
> To: Rickey C. Schmuck <103716.2560@compuserve.com>;
KSProperties@compuserve.com; dwgohn@juno.com; kschmuck@juno.com;
ALLEN_NAIPO@udlp.com; CLIFFORD_TURNER@udlp.com; DAVE_GILLIANS@udlp.com;
bogey1@worldlynxyork.net
> Subject: Internet Charges
> Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 3:27 PM
> 
> >
> Here is a reply from someone at Washington, 
> D.C.  Apparently this is a hoax
> >,
> >   That was very interesting, thanks, Alas, it is not true.
> >   While it is true that there have been proposals to impose taxes on 
> internet
> >access or sales made over the internet, both at the state and federal 
> level, the
> >Congress last year passed a law banning any new internet taxes for three

> yearrs
> >while the issue is studied further. President Clinton signed the bill 
> including
> >the moratorium into law.
> >    I'm attaching the description of that part of the tax law, taken
from the 
> >report of the House Committee on Ways and Means:
> >
> >  On June 22, 1998, H.R. 4105, the ``Internet Tax Freedom Bill,'' was
> >   introduced by Representative Cox. On June 23, 1998, the bill was
called 
> >   up by the House under suspension of the rules and passed by voice
vote. 
> >   H.R. 4105 was received in the Senate and was placed on the Senate
> >   Legislative Calender under General Orders. On October 8, 1998, the
> >   Senate passed S. 442, its version of the ``Internet Tax Freedom
Act''. 
> >   H.R. 4328, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental
> >   Appropriations Act, 1999, as enacted (P.L. 105 277), included
provisions 
> >   similar to S. 442.
> >      The ``Internet Tax Freedom Act,'' as signed into law by the
> >   President, generally imposed a three-year moratorium on taxes on
> >   Internet access and multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic
> >   commerce. The Act created an Advisory Commission on Electronic
Commerce 
> >   to examine Federal, State and local taxes related to electronic
> >   Commerce, and it also included declarations that the Internet should
be 
> >   free of new Federal taxes and that the Internet should be free of
> >   foreign tariffs, trade barriers, and other restrictions. 
> >
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