This week, Roll Call published an opinion piece from Brandon Arnold with the National Taxpayers Union. In the article, Arnold argued that Congress should keep the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act off of the agenda for the lame duck session.

This week, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a nonprofit taxpayer advocacy group, released a post arguing that the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act would cripple American small businesses that leverage technology. “The Marketplace Fairness Act is being billed by its supporters as a common-sense proposal that would level the playing field between online and brick-and-mortar retailers by taking away online retailers' exemption from sales tax”, writes ATR.  “What sounds noble, or at least harmless, at fi

Nick Martin, a retired pro mountain bike racer turned entrepreneur and founder of The Pro's Closet, based in Boulder, Colorado, published an article in the Bicycle Retailer that argued the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act would be detrimental for small businesses across the country. Martin explains that nine years ago he started The Pro’s Closet, a small business that was only possible because of the Internet.

Andy Logan, a resident of Stillwater and owner of Performance Product Technologies, an online business based in Stillwater, recently penned an op-ed for the Stillwater News Press that argued the Marketplace Fairness Act would seriously hurt small businesses. The Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act would force Internet enabled small businesses to become tax collectors for every state in the nation. In addition, it would make businesses vulnerable to audits from tax enforcement agents from states where the business is not even located.