Sample Letter addressing Revenue
Impact Issues
Date
Honorable
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
RE: Opposition to S. 150
Dear [Senator]:
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I write to express my strong concerns with S. 150, the "Internet
Tax Non-Discrimination Act." While I understand and can support
many of the goals of the legislation, a recent amendment adopted
in the Senate Commerce Committee could cost state and local governments
up to $8.75 billion per annum by 2006. Local governments, such as
ours, have balanced budget requirements. Therefore, if federal legislation
denies us the ability to collect revenues on services and assets
upon which we have traditionally charged for the right to do business
in our communities, our shared constituents could suffer from increased
local costs or lost services.
We would like to work with you to clarify that in adopting S. 150
and its House counterpart (H.R. 49), the Congress does not intend
to impair the collection of traditional telecommunications sales
taxes, nor rights-of-way fees nor gross percentage fees collected
in lieu of right-of-way fees. It would be most helpful if the legislation
clarified that Congress does not intend to adversely impact the
collection of excise taxes of general applicability on services
that just happen to employ telecommunications, cellular or cable
television facilities and which also offer access to the Internet.
Please feel free to contact my staff or me so that we might share
with you ideas on language to accomplish these goals.
Sincerely,
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