Legislative Affairs

Expanding municipal networks is not only unnecessary but potentially risky, It would enable local governments to expand outside of their appropriate sphere and into the illegitimate role of competing with the private sector.

Since 1998, the federal government has prohibited states and localities from imposing such taxes. This has helped Americans from all backgrounds gain access to the Internet. The economic and educational benefits of this policy are vast and immeasurable. It is long past time for Congress to make permanent the ban on Internet access taxes.

A coalition of 85 organizations from 51 countries calls for global policymakers to bear serious consideration to the integral role that the IP rights of innovators, creators and entrepreneurs plays in economic, technological and cultural advancement.

Twenty free market and taxpayer advocacy organizations warn Congress about the dangers posed to U.S. interests and the global economy by the work of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS).

Like the failed Marketplace Fairness Act, this act would dismantle proper limits on state tax-collection authority while potentially causing serious damage to electronic and interstate commerce.

TPA is a necessary step to get Congress moving on a long-stalled trade agenda.

In comments prepared for the House Small Business Committee, NTU's Pete Sepp cites IPI president Tom Giovanetti's March 2015 analysis examining the impact on business decision-making around the up-and-down turmoil of the Section 179 small business expensing limit over the past few years. 

American taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize international organizations working against U.S. interests.