Congress Passes Permanent Ban on Broadband Taxes In a rare showing of competence and cooperation, Congress has finally passed the expected permanent ban on Internet access taxes. The moratorium on Internet access taxes (known as the Internet Tax Freedom Act) was originally passed in 1998, but has required renewal each year. The House passed a permanent ban on specific broadband taxes in June of last year, but it apparently took a significant amount of stumbling about for the Senate to seal the deal.

The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act officially passed yesterday with a 75-20 vote. Past moratoriums have allowed the roughly ten states that had specific broadband access taxes (not to be confused with all the other taxes on your bill) before 1998 to retain them, though this new Act would do away with those. "I co-wrote the Internet Tax Freedom Act nearly a decade ago to help spur the growth of the digital economy," Senator Ron Wyden said of the ban on access taxes. "Today online commerce is responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs. In my view, when you have something that works, that has stood the test of time, you ought to make it permanent," he added. The ban on Internet access taxes now heads to President Barack Obama for his expected signature. The ban on Internet access taxes now heads to President Barack Obama for his expected signature.







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Mission, TX 18 recommendations Harddrive Premium Member One question. Who were the twenty idiots that voted against it? patt2k

join:2009-01-16 5 recommendations patt2k Member ? Does this mean simply when receiving your bill you won't see taxes for Internet portion of your bill?

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00000 3 recommendations battleop Member Permanent? What's to stop them from passing a law in the future to undo this?