ITI URGES SENATE PASSAGE
OF PERMANENT INTERNET TAXES MORATORIUM
09.25.2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ITI URGES SENATE PASSAGE OF PERMANENT INTERNET TAXES MORATORIUM
Current Internet Tax Moratorium Expires November
1; Legislation “Vital to Innovation Economy”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a letter
to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell,
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) President Rhett Dawson today
expressed strong support for a permanent extension of the moratorium on Internet
access taxes and urged the Senate to pass it before the current moratorium
expires on November 1, 2007.
“The Internet tax moratorium is vital to the innovation economy, and
must be reauthorized to help maintain America’s role as the world’s
leader in technological advancement,” Dawson said. “Since
the Internet tax moratorium was established in 1998 to protect an emerging
technology from burdensome and regressive taxes, the Internet has become the
backbone for modern communication and commerce. The Internet tax moratorium
has helped ensure Americans have access to services such as Internet-based
medical treatment, distance education, and electronic commerce, which have
improved millions of lives in less than a decade.”
Dawson added, “ITI supports a permanent extension of the Internet tax
moratorium because it will help provide certainty for consumers and businesses
and enable them to invest in advanced Internet broadband services and new technologies
in the coming years. All Americans should have the opportunity to realize
the benefits of the Internet, and we urge the Senate to pass the bill as soon
as possible.”
The letter noted that ITI anticipates scoring votes related to an extension
in its High Tech Voting Guide for the 110th Congress.
ABOUT ITI
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) represents the nation’s
leading high-tech companies and is widely recognized as the tech industry's
most effective lobbying organization in Washington. ITI helps member
companies achieve their policy objectives through building relationships with
Members of Congress, Administration officials, and foreign governments; organizing
industry-wide consensus on policy issues; and working to enact tech-friendly
government policies.
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ITI member companies include Accenture, Agilent Technologies, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, Canon U.S.A., Cisco, ca, Corning, Dell, Eastman Kodak, eBay, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lenovo, Lexmark, Micron, Microsoft, Monster, National Semiconductor, NCR, Oracle, Panasonic, SAP, Sony Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Symbol Technologies, Tektronix, Texas Instruments, Time Warner, Unisys, Verisign and Vonage.
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