Senators don’t want 1898 tax to hit Net
From TechRepublic:
“A tax originally created to pay for the Spanish-American War may not be extended to Internet connections after all.
Sen. George Allen on Monday announced a bill to prevent the IRS and the Treasury Department from levying a 3 percent federal excise tax to e-mail, broadband links or voice over Internet Protocol services.
“We didn’t win the Spanish-American War to have our own government ‘federales’ burdening Americans with taxes on innovation over 100 years later,” said Allen, a Republican from Virginia. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, also is backing the legislation.
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