[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7297]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ONLINE SALES TAX

  (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Speaker, innovative small businesses all across New 
Hampshire are using the Internet to reach new markets, create good 
jobs, and grow our economy.
  Congress should be working to create an environment that helps these 
companies expand and hire, not adding new bureaucratic barriers and red 
tape that will impede growth. But that's exactly what the so-called 
Marketplace Fairness Act would do.
  This legislation would force online retailers to collect sales taxes 
on behalf of over 9,000 taxing jurisdictions nationwide, creating a web 
of bureaucracy that would stifle small businesses.
  Later this week, I will return home to New Hampshire to hear how this 
tax would impact Granite State entrepreneurs. I urge my colleagues to 
do the same in their States and to stand up for small businesses by 
opposing this misguided legislation.

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