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This bill would permanently extend the ban on state and local \ninternet access taxes, and the ban on “multiple or discriminatory taxes”\n on electronic commerce.

If you're buying something on the Internet, an example of “multiple taxes” on electronic commerce would be if the state where you live imposes a sales tax on the transaction and the state where the seller is located also imposes a tax on the transaction because it was made on the internet.

Discriminatory taxes, on the other hand, are taxes that treat electronic commerce differently than mail-order\n purchases, or going into a real brick-and-mortar store. The \ndiscrimination counts if the tax is only imposed on e-commerce, is \napplied at a different rate, or the tax has different \ncollection requirements.

State and local governments that already have taxes on internet\n access and e-commerce would be able to keep them in place, as this \nlegislation would only apply to taxes imposed after this bill’s \nenactment — meaning that existing taxes would remain unchanged.

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