Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
The New
York Times
December 26, 1999, Sunday, Late Edition -
Final
SECTION: Section 4; Page 8; Column
6; Editorial Desk
LENGTH: 130 words
HEADLINE: Click and Tax
BODY:
To the Editor:
Of all the proposals regarding taxation of the
Internet (editorial, Dec. 19), the most troublesome are those that suggest
exempting e-commerce entirely. This would result in erosion of state and local
sales tax bases and, worse yet, would result in regressive taxation. The burden
of sales taxes would likely fall upon low-income people who cannot afford
computers and thus would have to make purchases at "brick and mortar" stores.
Compliance with the tax laws and filing requirements of 50 states is
burdensome, but I don't think it would be asking a lot of an industry that can
reduce every color of the spectrum to a series of digits.
JOSEPH
PACELLO
Staten Island, Dec. 21, 1999
The writer is a lawyer
and a certified public accountant.
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