Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued an opinion on a Colorado Internet sales tax reporting law that could ultimately have an effect on internet-enabled businesses. The Colorado law at issue requires sellers outside the state of Colorado - including many that use the Internet to sell - to report the value of each purchase made by a Colorado resident to Colorado’s revenue agency. While the intent of this law was to assist this Colorado agency in collecting use taxes from its residents, sellers with no physical presence in Colorado objected to the new reporting requ

Last week, Utah eBay sellers went to the Utah State Capitol to meet with their legislators on issues affecting Internet-enabled small businesses throughout the state. The legislators heard firsthand how eBay Inc. and its community of sellers – like Jester’s Jerseys, MDG Sales, LLC, and Stitchery Xpress - are creating jobs and investing in their communities, and why it is important to preserve this environment in support of the state’s continued economic growth.

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Last week, a group of 12 bipartisan Senators, representing states sharing a border with Canada, sent a letter to the Canadian Ambassador asking that the Canadian government consider raising their current de minimis threshold. 

Yesterday, the White House launched an interactive map on their blog that highlighted how trade benefits states and local communities all across the country.

This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on the long awaited net neutrality rules. In the end, the vote was 3-2, largely falling along party lines. In response to the vote, Internet Association President and CEO Michael Beckerman issued the following statement in support of the FCC’s passage of net neutrality rules:

Yesterday, PayPal hosted a panel on Capitol Hill entitled “Digital Payments Powering Small Business and Female Entrepreneurs”. Panelists included Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09) and U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (VA-10), as well as Erin Andrew, Assistant Administrator with the U.S. Small Business Administration, Carey Kolaja, PayPal’s Vice President of Global Production Solutions, and Christina Battle, owner of TopShelf Boutique.

From left to right: PayPal President Dan Schulman, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel, eBay Inc. President & CEO John Donahoe