David Hardesty, CPA, MBA., author of "Electronic Commerce: Taxation and Planning", writes in the latest issue of E-Commerce Tax News about progress on the Streamlined Sales Tax Project.
The SSTP is a collaboration between 30 or so US states to agree on a way of harmonising their sales tax regimes in a way that will allow a uniform basis of sales taxation on the Internet. The group agreed a proposal which could be put into law by individual states at a meeting on 24th January, but Hardesty says that The National Conference of State Legislatures has unilaterally made some controversial changes to the agree SSTP text, while then approving it.
Hardesty worries that these changes are the result of special interest lobbying (what isn't, in the US?) and that the laboriously crafted SSTP agreement will fall apart if such shenannigans continue. Worse, the NCSL wants control of the project wrested away from the SSTP and given to - you guessed it - the politicians.
Read the full text of David Hardesty's article at
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