Taxing E-Commerce

The fight over taxing electronic commerce intensified as top House Republicans and two governors rolled out competing plans to reshape U.S. sales taxes. House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich proposes with fellow Ohio Republican John Boehner to ban Internet-access and other taxes--including state and local sales and use taxes--that target e-commerce. Virginia’s Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore, chairman of a congressional panel studying Internet taxation, also says sales taxes on electronic commerce should be eliminated.