Governors Seeking Internet Tax
Steve Schear
schear at lvcm.com
Sat Aug 4 21:49:32 PDT 2001
At 08:50 PM 8/4/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010804/pl/tech_governors_tax_dc_1.html
>
>Governors Seeking Internet Tax
>By Leslie Gevirtz
>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer on Saturday urged
>Congress to allow states to tax e-commerce to replenish state coffers.
Perhaps some on the list can explain to me what the governors are asking
from Congress. A plain reading of the Constitution supports and recent SC
decisions have confirmed that the Commerce Clause prohibits states from
taxing out-of-state corporations without an in-state nexus. Congress is
also prohibited from delegating their taxation powers to the states, in the
same way the SC ruled they may not delegate to the Pres the editing of
bills via the line item veto, so what are they asking for?
steve
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