Proposed Internet Sales Taxes Will Hurt Businesses, Consumers

FEATURED STORY: Proposed Internet Sales Taxes Will Hurt Businesses, Consumers

Currently, states don't collect sales taxes from residents' online purchases with out-of-state retailers. But a group of senators is looking to change that. The Mainstreet Fairness Act would allow a cartel of states to homogenize tax codes and impose state sales taxes across state lines.This week, CEI Adjunct Scholar Jessica Melugin penned a Washington Times op-ed explaining how the Mainstreet Fairness Act would unduly burden businesses and ultimately hurt consumers. For more on internet taxation, read Melugin's San Jose Mercury op-ed from a few weeks ago.

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