This week, Federica Rabiolo, an eBay Inc. Government Relations team member, visited the Seacost eBay and ecommerce sellers meet up group, in an effort to educate, engage and activate local sellers from New Hampshire and surrounding states. Federica gave the sellers an overview of the ongoing Internet sales tax debate and talked about the ways the Marketplace Fairness Act would negatively impact their small businesses.

Last week, the coalition supporting the imposition of new sales tax burdens on small online retailers circulated a memo attacking The Heritage Foundation for opposing the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act.  In their memo, the coalition falsely claimed that the Internet sales tax bill would in no way hurt small businesses using the Internet to sell their goods and services.   In response to these “claims”, Heritage published their own memo setting the record straight on the issue.