TaxBytes

If you want lower taxes you have three options...and one might involve a moving truck.

Washington has never made fraud prevention a major focus. When fraud arises after its failure to act, the government blames tax preparation software.

Congress has a clear choice: Make complete and permanent the ban on Internet access and multiple or discriminatory taxes online, encouraging broadband access and e-commerce, or turn away from that national priority and allow the pro-tax thugs to loot our digital future.

The Marketplace Fairness Act would have opened the door to a new era of state tax burdens under the guise of the principle of “economic nexus.”  

The IRS had its budget cut in the continuing resolution this year and immediately the press and many liberal groups called the reduction outrageous, but the cruelest cut was saved for the taxpayer.

For conservatives, there are a surprising number of policy victories in the "CRomnibus."

It’s clear that voters want a different direction from Washington, and that different direction certainly doesn’t include higher taxes on the Internet.

Congress should pass an extenders package and resolve to move on fundamental tax reform during the next Congress. But that package should not include the PTC.

Imagine the surprise that online customers will receive when the lame duck Senate massively expands government power via the Internet.

Comprehensive reform should be the goal, not necessarily one piece of comprehensive legislation.