AFP Tax Alert: SB 7206 Internet Sales Tax

[Patricia M. McBride]

TAKE ACTION AGAINST NEW TAXES: VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION TO
AN INTERNET SALES TAX

During a full-fledged recession, leave it to the Florida Legislature to propose a new tax - and one that they have questionable constitutional authority to enact. On Thursday morning the Senate Subcommittee on Finance and Tax, chaired by Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, will propose SB 7206 for consideration. This bill would institute a new sales tax on Internet purchases if the retailer uses affiliates or referrals in the state. This bill aims to tax transactions by companies like Amazon, and has been proposed in a number of other states.

Click here to read AFP's letter in opposition to SB 7206.

Despite what the bills proponents would like people to think, it will in fact harm Floridians by eliminating revenue for those companies that refer business. Similar proposals have also failed to bring in the revenue wind-fall many claimed they would.

To sum it up - SB 7206 is a tax increase through and through and we must put a stop to this bad bill!

TAKE ACTION ON SB 7206 NOW!

[Patricia M. McBride]

Always and forever looking for a way to take more of our property, so they can squander it foolishly on things they should not be doing to start with :).

[amanda choate]

I am for thks tax, local businesses our neighbors, charge these taxes, yet some guy across tghe country, with no interest in our community doesn't have to charge it. No fair.