Congress to tackle Net taxes, privacy
But since the moratorium was passed in 1998 with strong bipartisan support, there has been a great awakening among brick-and-mortar businesses about the fairness of a system that forces traditional retailers to collect sales taxes in many states while pure-play Internet retailers generally don't collect it. A battle over the moratorium is possible this time around.
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