Amazon.com Inc. and brick-and-mortar stores urged U.S. senatorsto pass legislation to let states collect sales taxes from onlineretailers based elsewhere, as other Internet companies said theyoppose the measure.
Federal legislation would create “an even-handed nationalframework for sales tax collection,” Paul Misener, vice presidentfor global public policy at Amazon, the largest U.S. onlineretailer, told the Senate Commerce Committee.
The legislation would let states impose new and complex taxburdens for companies that would have to comply with 9,600jurisdictions, Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, agroup backed by EBay Inc., Oracle Corp. and Facebook Inc., said inwritten testimony for a hearing today.
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