If Web commerce remains tax-free, observes Boston Globe columnist Robert Kuttner, the poor end up paying more. In April, the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, the 19-member panel created by Congress in 1998, will make its recommendations on what to do about Internet taxation. Chairman Gilmore is leading the group in favor of permanently banning the Internet sales tax. States and local government, facing the specter of an eroding tax base and a broadening divide between rich and poor when it comes to taxation, need to work together and support the NGA's sales-tax simplification plan. Please list your telephone number for confirmation.
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