Electronic Commerce and the State Retail Sales Tax: A Challenge to American Federalism |
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Authors: | Charles E McLure Jr |
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Institution: | (1) Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, D-68034 Mannheim, Germany |
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Abstract: | Electronic commerce, by magnifying problems with the existing sales tax, has precipitated reexamination of basic precepts of fiscal federalism in the United States, not just taxation of remote sellers. This paper examines: key features of electronic commerce; the Internet Tax Freedom Act and the Commission it mandates; tax assignments in the United States; problems in assigning sales taxes to subnational governments; constitutional impediments to requiring remote vendors to collect sales and use taxes; tentative findings of the National Tax Association's project on taxation of electronic commerce; and implications of the current debate over taxation of electronic commerce for intergovernmental fiscal relations in the United States. |
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Keywords: | electronic commerce Internet Tax Freedom Act Quill sales tax fiscal federalism intergovernmental fiscal relations National (NTA) Tax Association Electronic Commerce Taxation |
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