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Taxing Electronic Commerce: Preliminary Thoughts On Model Uniform Legislation, Walter Hellerstein May 1997

Taxing Electronic Commerce: Preliminary Thoughts On Model Uniform Legislation, Walter Hellerstein

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This report on Taxing Electronic Commerce was presented at the symposium on multi-jurisdictional taxation of electronic commerce at Harvard University on April 5, 1997. This report describes the normative principles shared by most serious analyses of the problems raised by state taxation of electronic commerce. It then attempts to translate these principles into legal rules that could provide a model for uniform legislation in this area. Finally it addresses constitutional questions that will likely be encountered in any effort to implement such legislation.


State Taxation Of Electronic Commerce, Walter Hellerstein Apr 1997

State Taxation Of Electronic Commerce, Walter Hellerstein

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The coming of the information age has profound implications for state taxation as it does for just about everything else. The exponential growth and increasing commercialization of the Internet, along with the sweeping technological and regulatory changes that have reconfigured the telecommunications industry, pose a daunting challenge to the states’ traditional approaches to taxing business activity and the telecommunications system that facilitates it. State tax administrators and policymakers, alarmed at the prospect that their tax bases will disappear into cyberspace, are seeking means to accommodate their taxing regimes to the new technological environment. The business community, on the other hand, …


Derivative Securities: Governmental Entities As End Users, Bankrupts And Other Big Losers, Robert C. Downs, Lenora J. Fowler Apr 1997

Derivative Securities: Governmental Entities As End Users, Bankrupts And Other Big Losers, Robert C. Downs, Lenora J. Fowler

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