E-commerce Tax Committee Member Asks Clinton To End Stalemate
A member of the federal panel on e-commerce taxes has asked President Clinton to reverse the administration's opposition to a compromise proposal. Dean Andal, chairman of California's state Board of Equalization and a member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, sent a letter to Clinton on Thursday, urging him to instruct the comission's three federal appointees to support a compromise package drafted by the panel's six corporate members.
The 19-member commission plans to vote on the proposal at its meeting in Dallas on March 20 and 21.
The compromise proposal calls for:
- extending the current moratorium on taxing Internet access charges for five years;
- eliminating all existing taxes on Internet access charges;
- clarifying the business activity taxing authority of the states;
- prohibiting sales and use taxes on software, music and videos
- eliminating the 3% federal excise tax for telecommunications providers;
- encouraging state and local governments to simplify their sales tax systems and develop a uniform interstate tax statute;
- codifying the Supreme Court's "substantial physical presence" test for determining when an interstate seller is required to collect sales and use taxes.
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