Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act
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Introduced on January 7, 2003, H.R. 1552, aka the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act, was passed by the House Judiciary Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee in the United States of America. The bill was sponsored by Representative Chris Cox (R-California). H.R. 1552 extends for five years the current moratorium on new and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, and makes permanent the ban on Internet access taxes. H.R. 1552 does not allow for "simplification" provisions that would allow the states to shift their tax collection burdens to merchants outside of their jurisdictions.
The bill was approved in the House of Representatives on September 17, 2003. Another version proposed by Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) was approved in the senate sometime in November 2003.