A Meaningless Repeal of the Amazon Tax?
This news sort of bled out as opposed to being screamed out, but the NY Senate did in fact appeal a goodly portion of the Amazon Tax in a bill introduced June 19th, 2008 (my birthday) and subsequently passed in a conservative controlled State Senate, 44-18.
Why wasn’t this sung from the roof tops by NY affiliates?
A few reasons.
It was snuck through the last day of the NY session, and was introduced by the rules committee, without a sponsor. So no one except a committee was championing the idea, therefore noone was mugging for the cameras about it.
Second, there is no coupling legislation in the NY assembly, so it’s unlikely that we’ll see any movement on this thing until 2009.
I have additional info coming from Assemblywoman Susan John’s office this week, and I’ll pass it along.
Tags: new york state internet and pay for performance tax
