AT&T Tech Support 360April 13, 2007 8:00 AM PDT
Tech Politics Podcast: Net's future as tax-free haven
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The Internet has been an almost tax-free zone for more than a decade. How much longer can that last?
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There's a move afoot in Congress to change the way the law treats taxes on purchases made over the Web and taxes on Internet access charges. A decade ago, industry leaders said their start-up businesses needed protection in order to flourish.
But with Internet retailers now annually raking in hundreds of millions of dollars, it's a different world. So which side has the better argument? And which side is likely to prevail? Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican presidential hopeful and prominent anti-tax advocate, takes a turn with Charles Cooper and Declan McCullagh on this week's edition of CNET News.com's Tech Politics Rundown.
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