The US Electricity Supplier Industry Will Really Say Goodbye To The Tax Exemption Era.

In the us with high taxes, the network sales platform has become a good way for many enterprises to save costs and enhance price competitiveness, but this dream may soon be over. P

The US Senate voted to introduce an online sales tax bill to increase local government revenue.

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< p > according to Xinhua news agency, the United States Senate approved the "fair market motion" proposed by Mike Nzi and other federal senators on the same day by 69 votes to 27 votes. The bill will authorize all state governments to levy sales tax on products sold by Internet, radio and TV commercials.

But if the bill is to become a law, it needs approval from the house of Representatives controlled by the Republican Party.

According to the existing laws of the United States, the state government can only levy taxes on retailers who have physical stores in the state.

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"P" may be bad news for the American people, but it can bring huge financial help to the American local government.

According to a research report released by 3 business schools at University of Tennessee, the US state lost 23 billion dollars in tax revenue last year due to the failure to levy sales tax outside the state.

Among them, about $11 billion 400 million was not able to levy taxes on Internet sales, while the rest came from catalogues, mail order and telephone ordering.

Once the fair motion is approved and passed by the house of Representatives, the online sales tax will create a new tax source of more than US $20 billion per year for us local governments.

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< p > for physical retailers, the days of elated pride are not far away.

Because online retailers have saved the cost of tax payment and made greater profits in commodity prices, consumers have been streaming to online stores, and the days of physical retailers are becoming more and more difficult.

The US Retail Federation is lobbying Congress, hoping that the bill will go all the way to become law.

US President Obama, Warren Buffett, Microsoft chairman Bill Gate and Matthew Seaan, President of the US retail Confederation, are also supporters of this bill.

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< p > despite the fact that physical retailers are full of confidence, the bill is likely to be blocked in the house of Representatives because Republicans see it as a tax increase bill.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Robert Goodlatte, said that because of the complexity of Taxation and the potential impact on small businesses, he has reservations about this legislation.

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< p > it is understood that Boehner, speaker of the house of Representatives, has no plans to arrange specific votes and hearings for this bill.

Reuters quoted a senior assistant from the party as saying that Boehner intends to send the proposal to the Judiciary Committee of the house of representatives for a hearing before voting.

The Senate skipped this step before voting.

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< p > in eBay's view, the new law has been unable to bypass.

Amazon, an online retailer with legal constraints, has expressed support for the bill, but the company is working with eBay to actively engage in political lobbying in an attempt to raise the tax-free standard from $1 million to $10 million.

It is understood that the market fairness act only authorizes states to levy taxes on online sales, rather than impose taxes, and tax exemption for online retailers with annual sales of less than $1 million (including $1 million).

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Sun Lijian, vice president of School of economics, Fudan University, said in an interview with the international finance daily that if the United States passes the "fair market motion", it may affect the layout of e-commerce enterprises in the world, and it will also have a significant impact on China's IT enterprises listed in the US.

Sun Lijian analyzed that most of the overseas concept stocks that China listed in the US were IT enterprises, of which e-commerce enterprises were heavily affected.

At the same time, because of the high tax rate in the US, Amazon, eBay and other enterprises may shift the key areas of development to China and other Asian Pacific countries.

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Besides P, the US move will be considered as exemplary or referred to by other countries including China.

Since the two sessions this year, the topic of China's "electricity supplier taxation" has been controversial.

Zhang Jindong, chairman of Suning, threw out the theory of "electricity supplier taxation" during the two sessions, which is considered to be directed at Taobao, the online shopping base.

But in the view of Zhang Yanlai, member of China Electronic Commerce Association policy and Law Committee, although today's mainstream view is that it is a general trend to levy taxes on electricity suppliers, it is too early to implement in China.

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"P (Taobao)," manager of Yihong flagship store, told the International Financial Daily that "(collecting taxes) is like sucking blood for us."

He said that at present, Taobao has imposed tens of thousands of service fees on merchants, which has made many businesses at the edge of being unable to make ends meet. If they continue to levy an online sales tax, they will have a devastating blow to a large number of small and medium-sized sellers.

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