Dick Durbin Getting Closer To Taxing The Internet

June 8, 2011
by Marcy Bonebright

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Durbin spoke with local business owners about the Main Street Fairness Act at the Springfield Running Center on April 27. The Act claims to level the playing field between online and bricks-and-mortar merchants by requiring sellers to collect sales taxes regardless of whether the seller has a physical presence in the state.

Don’t think of it as an Internet sales tax — just think of Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) Main Street Fairness Act as an attempt to collect the back taxes he says you already owe.

“Durbin is expected to step into the escalating Internet sales tax battle as soon as this week with a bill that would allow the 44 states — plus Washington, D.C. — that collect sales taxes to require out-of-state online retailers to pay up,â€