Stop Internet Taxes
More taxes are not a good thing in our economy. As I have said over and over again, more taxes on consumers means less dollars spent in our economy. This is an effort 
to add even more taxes to our already enourmous load in the form of taxes on internet access.
The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act, which banned all taxes on internet activity, is set to expire at midnight tonight. Currently Virginia Senator George Allen (R) is backing the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act which is in the Senate right now. Even this act won't save ordinary internet users from taxes.
The Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act has language in it that will allow some media companies (like cable companies) to re-classify themselves as internet companies and avoid pesky taxes. If local governments loose their access to taxes from cable companies and businesses like them they will find another way to get those tax dollars.
Since wide-spread use of the internet began it has been an avenue for new and existing businesses to expand and market their products on a national, or even international, stage. Communication through the internet is cheap and effective and is being used more and more by businesses around the nation. To allow internet usage to be taxed would only result in raised rates for internet connections as well as web services. Thus the formerly inexpensive communications and marketing strategies used by businesses will suddnely be not as cheap. The effect this would have on the economy would be decidedly negative.
Let your congressmen or women know that we want our internet to be tax free. Further, that we also want to stop other media companies from using the ban on taxes for the internet as a loophole to escape the taxes they are currently paying. The easiest solution is simply to extend the current ban on taxes permanently.
For an easy way to contact your representatives in congress, click here. Its free to sign up and utilize. I would recommend printing your letter out and mailing it as opposed to using their email option. I have found that a mailed letter often carries more weight then an email.
Email Taxes Start Saturday
Accessing The Internet
Cable Firm or Telecom?
to add even more taxes to our already enourmous load in the form of taxes on internet access.The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act, which banned all taxes on internet activity, is set to expire at midnight tonight. Currently Virginia Senator George Allen (R) is backing the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act which is in the Senate right now. Even this act won't save ordinary internet users from taxes.
The Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act has language in it that will allow some media companies (like cable companies) to re-classify themselves as internet companies and avoid pesky taxes. If local governments loose their access to taxes from cable companies and businesses like them they will find another way to get those tax dollars.
Since wide-spread use of the internet began it has been an avenue for new and existing businesses to expand and market their products on a national, or even international, stage. Communication through the internet is cheap and effective and is being used more and more by businesses around the nation. To allow internet usage to be taxed would only result in raised rates for internet connections as well as web services. Thus the formerly inexpensive communications and marketing strategies used by businesses will suddnely be not as cheap. The effect this would have on the economy would be decidedly negative.
Let your congressmen or women know that we want our internet to be tax free. Further, that we also want to stop other media companies from using the ban on taxes for the internet as a loophole to escape the taxes they are currently paying. The easiest solution is simply to extend the current ban on taxes permanently.
For an easy way to contact your representatives in congress, click here. Its free to sign up and utilize. I would recommend printing your letter out and mailing it as opposed to using their email option. I have found that a mailed letter often carries more weight then an email.
Email Taxes Start Saturday
Accessing The Internet
Cable Firm or Telecom?
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