Main Street members know better than anyone how proposed Internet sales tax legislation would negatively impact the U.S. economy and small businesses using the Internet to reach new consumers and new markets. While the mega-billion dollar retailers and their allies use empty buzzwords like “e-fairness” and claim that software is a silver bullet for small business concerns, we know that Internet sales tax is a complex issue with many nuances.

Paul Jones, eBay’s Senior Director of Global Asset Protection, recently spoke to eBay Radio and Jim “Griff” Griffith about what eBay is doing to protect its customers.  eBay partners with retailers and law enforcement officials around the globe to protect both buyers and sellers, and to ensure that eBay is a safe and trustworthy place for people to engage in trade.

As many of you know, 2012 has seen a lot of Congressional action on Internet sales taxes and there have been numerous attempts to impose new sales tax collection burdens on small online retailers.  Not only were there four separate pieces of legislation introduced in Congress that would require online retailers to collect and remit sales taxes in over 9600 tax jurisdictions nationwide, but there were three Congressional hearings and multiple attempts to attach Internet sales tax requirements on essential legislation, such as the National Defense Bill and the Small Business Jobs and Tax

Mark Lavelle, senior vice president of strategy and business development for PayPal, and Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin

Markets like Russia have been priority emerging markets for many Silicon Valley companies.

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