US Senate okays seven more years of tax-free email, Internet access
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 26, 2007 at 5:14am
Less than a week before an existing ban on Internet access taxes is set to expire, the U.S. Senate late Thursday voted to let the prohibition live on for seven more years.
The compromise bill, which was approved by a voice vote, would prohibit state and local governments from taxing any service that enables users to connect to the Internet and some related services through 2014. That’s three years longer than the version passed by the House of Representatives last week, notes CNET.
The bill won’t go to the President’s desk yet. First, the House must approve the Senate’s changes. Also, States that already had Internet access taxes in place before the ban took effect would still be allowed to keep them, notes CNET. They could also tax Internet services, albeit more indirectly, if they had already enacted broad-based laws that tax a business’ gross income or receipts.
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