Legislation Would Extend Internet Tax Ban

COMPANION LEGISLATION to indefinitely extend the current three-year moratorium on new taxes on Internet commerce has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and in the House by Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA). Wyden’s bill, The Internet Non-Discrimination Act, and Cox’s (not yet named) would amend the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act by eliminating any reference to a three-year tax moratorium. The current moratorium expires October 2001.