110 HR 3679 IH: State Video Tax Fairness Act of U.S. House of Representatives 2007-09-27 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3679 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 27, 2007 Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Boucher, and Mr. Franks of Arizona) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To prohibit discrimination in State taxation of multichannel video programming distribution services.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the State Video Tax Fairness Act of 2007.

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Prohibition

No State shall impose a discriminatory tax on any means of providing multichannel video programming distribution services, including Internet protocol (or any successor protocol), direct broadcast satellite delivery, and cable television services.

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Definition

For purposes of this Act, the term discriminatory tax means any form of direct or indirect tax that results in different net State charges being imposed on substantially equivalent multichannel video programming services based on the means by which those services are delivered.