Digital Law
Internet Taxation Issue

Speaker: Professor James Edward Maule, Villanova University School of Law

Headlines
Important News On Current Sales Tax Legislation
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/768996.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-7581493.html?tag=cd_mh
http://www.law.com/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/

1. Do the CLE Demo

http://vls.law.vill.edu/prof/maule/cle_demo/decle1.htm

2. Read the Internet Tax Freedom Act

http://vls.law.vill.edu/prof/maule/digital_law/itfa.htm

3. Give a quick read to Software Industry Coalition, Solving State and Local Use Tax Collection Problems: A Necessary First Step Before Dealing With Use Tax Problems Of Electronic Commerce at http://www.softwareindustry.org/issues/docs-htm/usetaxwp.html

4. Read through the Letter from the Multistate Tax Commission to Sen. McCain
http://www.law.wayne.edu/mcintyre/text/mccain_internet_response_MTC.pdf

5. Wander around the site set up by the advocates of the streamlined sales tax approach.
http://www.geocities.com/streamlined2000/

Other sources (no need to read, but check them out for useful information, including state by state status of various taxes):

http://cox.house.gov/nettax/ (significant useful information on state by state status, "horror stories", proposals, etc

http://www.ecommercecommission.org/ (has the report of the Advisory Commission on E-Commerce)

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/g600165.pdf (the GAO report)

http://www.law.wayne.edu/mcintyre/electronic.htm ( a collection of helpful items explaining the issues)