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HR 3179 112th Congress House Taxation Sales and excise taxes State and local taxation Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Marketplace Equity Act of 2011

Introduced: October 13, 2011 Introduced by: Womack, Steve Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 24, 2012
Committee Hearings Held.
Jul 23, 2012
Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law Discharged.
Oct 24, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
Oct 13, 2011
Introduced in House
Oct 13, 2011
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Marketplace Equity Act of 2011 - Authorizes states to require all sellers making remote sales to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to such sales into the state, without regard to the location of the seller, if such states implement a simplified system for administration of sales and use tax collection for remote sellers. Requires such a system to include, at a minimum: (1) an exception for remote sellers with gross annual receipts in the preceding calendar year from remote sales not exceeding $1 million in the United States or not exceeding $100,000 in the state, (2) a single sales and use tax return for use by remote sellers and a single revenue authority within the state with which remote sellers are required to file a tax return, and (3) a uniform tax base throughout the state.

Defines "remote sale" as a sale of goods or services attributed to a state with respect to which a seller does not have adequate physical presence to establish a nexus so as to allow such state to require such seller to collect and remit taxes.

What's happening now July 24, 2012

Committee Hearings Held.

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