Internet Access Tax Ban

It took a Halloween expiration to scare Congress into action, but consumers can now breathe easier thanks to John’s successful fight to enact his legislation to ban Internet access taxes for the next seven years and protect e-mails and instant messaging from taxation as well.

On October 31, 2007, one day before the existing moratorium on Internet access taxes was set to expire, President Bush signed John’s bill into law following the United States Senate agreement to ban Internet access taxes for the next seven years - three years longer than the four-year, United States House of Representatives-passed bill.

John continues the fight to make this ban permanent; taxing the Internet is wrong for consumers and wrong for the economy. As a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, he has worked consistently to permanently ban taxes on Internet use, introducing the "Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act" with Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) on the first day of the 110th Congress in January. Previously, John was an original co-sponsor of the bipartisan "Internet Tax Non-Discrimination Act" in 2005.

During the 108th Congress, Sununu was an original co-sponsor of legislation to permanently ban the Internet from access taxes. Portions of that bill were ultimately incorporated into the "Internet Tax Non-Discrimination Act of 2003," which President Bush signed into law in December of 2004.