网店征税大论战

    其实不太可能出现这种情况。这些“小商户”可以获得各种支持，包括由TaxCloud, Avalara, Exactor和其他企业提供的各类服务，这些服务往往成本很低或完全免费。市场公平联合会（Marketplace Fairness Coalition）由百思买（Best Buy）、塔吉特和亚马逊这些零售商组成。这个联合会在一封致多纳霍的公开信中写道：“如今市场上充斥着各类基础软件，只需要轻轻一点，卖家就能轻松计算任何一个州的销售税。而且《市场公平法案》要求各州免费为企业提供这类软件。”同时，这项法案也会限制使用这类软件的商户的责任。

    《纽约时报》（The New York Times）的安德鲁•罗斯•索尔金上个月撰文称，该法案将催生“一些家庭手工作坊式的公司，它们将提供代收税的服务，其中就包括eBay，它早就因为简化商户的销售流程而名声在外了。”

    参议院以69-27票通过了这项法案，但它会在白宫碰到挑战。白宫的很多共和党立法委员都认为“收税不好”。曾有一位来自阿肯色州（沃尔玛的故乡）的共和党人斯蒂夫•沃马克提出过类似法案想获得白宫通过，而且还获得了议会两党的支持。但茶党支持的弗吉尼亚共和党人如鲍勃•古德雷特就对这项法案的“复杂性”表示反对。同样也是来自弗吉尼亚州的多数派领导埃里克•康托则暗示，他可能会对参议院提出的这个版本的法案做出重大修改，但目前尚不清楚到底会是些什么样的修改。目前他还没有确定投票的具体日期。(财富中文网)

    译者：清远

    Unlikely. The "small guy" will have access to all kinds of help, including from services like TaxCloud, Avalara, Exactor and others, often at low cost or even no cost. In an open letter to Donahoe, the Marketplace Fairness Coalition, composed of retailers like Best Buy (BBY), Target, and Amazon, noted that "basic software currently available in the marketplace today makes it easy for sellers to calculate any state's sales tax with a simple click-of-the-button and the Marketplace Fairness Act requires states to provide such software to businesses free-of-charge." The bill would also limit liability for those merchants using such software.

    The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin noted last month that the bill could create "a cottage industry of companies that will offer services to collect the tax, including eBay, which has made a reputation trying to streamline the selling process for merchants."

    The Senate passed the bill on a bipartisan vote of 69-27, but it faces a challenge in the House, where "taxes bad" is the extent of many Republican lawmakers' thinking. The effort in the House to pass a similar measure was introduced by a Republican, Steve Womack of Arkansas (home of Wal-Mart) and has the support of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. But Tea Party-backed Republicans such as Bob Goodlatte of Virginia have voiced objections over the bill's "complexity." Majority Leader Eric Cantor, also of Virginia, hinted that he might move to make big changes to the Senate version, but it's not yet clear what those changes might be. He hasn't yet set a date for a vote.