House passes Internet tax ban

[Silent_One]

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/17/HNhouseinternet_1.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday that would permanently ban governments in the U.S. from levying taxes unique to the Internet.
The House, on a voice vote, passed the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act, which would permanently prohibit taxing jurisdictions in the U.S. from levying such taxes as e-mail taxes, bandwidth taxes, or bit taxes. To become law, the bill would have to pass the U.S. Senate and be signed by President Bush. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved its version of the bill July 31, and its next stop is the full Senate.

I found this part interesting.....

Some House Democrats had questioned if the bill would complicate efforts of states to collect taxes from retailers outside their borders, but the bill passed over their objections. The bill does not prohibit states from collecting sales taxes on products their residents order from catalogs or other remote retailers, but requires that Internet retailers be treated the same as other remote retailers.

Good old Democrats, always looking for ways to try block tax relief...