On Friday,
December 18, 2015, Congress passed and President Obama signed the $1.1 trillion
funding bill
that will keep the federal government running until September 30, 2016. This
legislation includes a nine-month
extension
of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA). If Congress had failed to extend the
ITFA, states and municipalities would have had the ability to tax Internet
access.
Despite the good
news of the nine-month extension, it is very important that the Senate pass the
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act in the next nine months to avoid another
close call with the ITFA expiration date at the end of September 2016. Congress
has had to extend the ITFA a handful of times in the past two years. The House
already passed its version of the bill back in June 2015. (See my blog from last week.)
Permanently
banning taxes on Internet access would help keep the Internet affordable for
all Americans. And it would lead to additional market-driven innovation,
content choices, and economic growth.
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