Earlier this week, Sen. Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) introduced a bill known as the Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act which would set up the administrative mechanisms needed to collect and distribute sales tax payments to states. The proposed bill would exempt online businesses if their annual revenue is below $5 million. "[Enzi] is not proposing a new tax being collected," a staffer told ComputerWorld. "He just wants a way to make the online retailers [charge] the same as the small business down the street. These online retailers are just skirting around the online sales tax collections." He introduced a similar bill in 2005, but was unsuccessful.

For more on the push for an online sales tax:
- see this ComputerWorld article
- and this article from DailyTechRag