Released: April 22, 2013

Senate planning vote on Internet sales tax bill

Jia Lynn Yang

Source: http://tinyurl.com/bn8uy6x

The days of tax-free online shopping could finally be numbered.

The Senate is planning to vote on a bill as soon as Monday that would give states the authority to collect sales taxes on all Internet purchases, handing local governments as much as $11 billion per year in added revenue that they are legally owed — but that hasn’t been paid to them for years.

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