Last week, the National Taxpayers  Union (NTU) released a study that found, if passed, the Marketplace Fairness Act would cost American taxpayers $340 billion in new sales taxes in 2015. NTU, a national taxpayer advocacy organization, has been a leader in the movement to stop the Marketplace Fairness Act from passing into law.

Andy Logan, an Internet enabled small business owner in Stillwater, Oklahoma, published an opinion piece in the Stillwater News Press that argued federal Internet sales tax legislation would impose tax collection burdens that would threaten his ability to stay in business and with the midterm elections looming, Logan urged his policymakers to think carefully before passing a bill that would stifle small business growth a

Christine Hanson, national issue campaign manager for Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy organization in Washington, DC, published an op-ed that urged Congress to pass legislation that extends the ban on Internet access taxes without attaching an Internet sales tax to the measure.

Mark Obenshain (R), who represents District 26 in the Senate of Virginia, recently published an article in Times Dispatch arguing that Virginia should not have tied funding for a transportation bill to potential revenue of the Marketplace Fairness Act because it is “a flawed piece of legislation”.

Hamilton Davison, President and Executive Director of American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) and co-founder of the True Simplification of Taxation (TruST) coalition, recently published an opinion piece in The Hill that urged the Senate to not rush to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act in the final days of Congress. Although the Senate passed the bill last May, the House has refused to take up the flawed legislation.