Paul Stanway Jr
07-12-2005, 08:56 PM
Internet taxes? It's just a matter of time
By Charles Cooper
When the Supreme Court in 1992 exempted out-of-state mail order retailers from collecting most sales taxes, the online world was still waiting to be invented.
In fact, the court's decision did not even mention the word "Internet." No mystery. At the time, Marc Andreessen was wolfing down cheeseburgers with his buddies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while other future cyberstars such as Jeff Bezos and Pierre Omidyar were just ambitious nobodies.
Read more at http://news.com.com/The+clock+is+ticking/2010-1071_3-5778677.html?part=rss&tag=5778677&subj=news
By Charles Cooper
When the Supreme Court in 1992 exempted out-of-state mail order retailers from collecting most sales taxes, the online world was still waiting to be invented.
In fact, the court's decision did not even mention the word "Internet." No mystery. At the time, Marc Andreessen was wolfing down cheeseburgers with his buddies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while other future cyberstars such as Jeff Bezos and Pierre Omidyar were just ambitious nobodies.
Read more at http://news.com.com/The+clock+is+ticking/2010-1071_3-5778677.html?part=rss&tag=5778677&subj=news