GOVERNANCE
& GOING GLOBAL
ToC
- Attack on Net Tax Commission
- Business
patents threaten Web
- Consumers Still Wary of Online Info Gathering
- E-Commerce
Bill Passes in Maryland
- E-Commerce Tax Commission Issues One-Sided Final
Report
- EU Privacy Pact Held Hostage by Powerful Few
- European E-Commerce
Threatened By Rapid Growth
- Government 'fails to encourage e-commerce
- House
leaders embrace plan for no Net taxes
- Japan settles on e-commerce certificate
standard
- Lawmakers Promise Action On Net Tax Report
- Net Tax Key
to EU Directive
- Party Politics Heats Up E-Tax Debate
- Rated FG,
for "Federal Guidance"
- Regulatory efforts to aim at e-commerce
- State
Coffers Overflow Without Internet Taxes
- Two Auction Sites on Web Agree
to Federal Product Safeguards
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Attack on Net Tax
Commission
More than two-thirds of the nation's governors will deliver
to Congress a scathing bipartisan attack on the Internet tax commission, denouncing
it as a forum for special interests seeking tax breaks.
Business patents threaten Web
Aggressive patenting of methods or ideas
will tamp down innovation.
Consumers Still Wary of Online Info Gathering
Research released this
week by Odyssey L.P. will not sit well with e-marketers and retailers. According
to Odyssey's January 2000 Homefront study, online users overwhelmingly support
government intervention to set standards for how companies may use personal information
gathered through the Internet and the Web.
E-Commerce Bill Passes in Maryland
The Maryland General Assembly gave
final approval to complex legislation creating a legal framework for electronic
commerce and other commercial transactions of the Information Age.
E-Commerce Tax Commission Issues One-Sided Final Report
Disregarding
the views of opponents, Governor Gilmore of Virginia last week presided over a
final vote that sends to Congress the report of the Advisory Commission on Electronic
Commerce. The report, which was approved 10 to 8, comes from a Commission no closer
now to agreement on the issues plaguing taxation of electronic commerce than when
it was formed a year ago.
EU Privacy Pact Held Hostage by Powerful Few
Just when it appeared
that several years of negotiations between the U.S. Commerce Department and the
European Union would lead to a new international privacy pact, a coalition of
U.S. businesses is voicing strong opposition to its ratification.
European E-Commerce Threatened By Rapid Growth
A report published this
week says that the early success of Internet-only retailers is now being threatened
as Western Europe's online market is predicted to grow dramatically by 415 percent
over the 1999 to 2001 period.
Government 'fails to encourage e-commerce
Half the UK's small businesses
believe the government is not doing enough to help them buy and sell online.
House leaders embrace plan for no Net taxes
A federal commission report
urging Congress not to permit taxes to block the Internet's growth got a warm
welcome from House Republicans despite lingering claims that the report is one-sided.
Is It Curtain Time For
Online Retailers?
As surely as spring follows winter, the symbol of online
retailing has turned from a wired Santa Claus to the grim reaper pulling the plug
on dot coms. Everyone expects many more victims this year to follow CDnow Online
and Peapod into desperate bailout efforts - and some of them to fail altogether.
Japan settles on e-commerce certificate standard
A group of 15 major
Japanese electronics companies and digital certification companies has agreed
to adopt a common standard for verification of e-commerce transactions, the companies
said Friday in a joint statement.
Lawmakers Promise Action On Net Tax Report
A national commission delivered
its report on Internet taxes Wednesday to House and Senate leaders, who vowed
to get legislation passed this year to keep cyberspace tax-free.
Net Tax Key to EU Directive
As the European Union finalizes a massive
e-commerce directive aimed at allowing freer movement of goods and services across
the continent, some observers fear one provision will actually constrict growth
by establishing onerous online taxes.
Party Politics Heats Up E-Tax Debate
The Internet tax din grew even
louder this week as members of the U.S. House of Representatives weighed in along
predictable partisan lines.
Rated FG, for "Federal Guidance"
The Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act hits the books today, sending government agents online to search
for sites that ask kids too many questions.
Regulatory efforts to aim at e-commerce
The freewheeling world of
electronic commerce may soon face additional red tape, tangling up more Texas
companies. Attorneys, lobbyists and industry experts say that within 18 months,
and possibly sooner, federal and state agencies will increasingly clamp down on
everything from antitrust and privacy issues to online gambling, hacking and access
to cable lines.
State Coffers Overflow
Without Internet Taxes
The chairman of a congressionally appointed
group to study whether to tax sales over the Internet told lawmakers Thursday
that government must change its policies as well as the way it operates, instead
of relying on old rules and structures.
Two Auction Sites on Web Agree to Federal Product Safeguards
The
Consumer Product Safety Commission said that two of the biggest Internet auction
sites have agreed to new safeguards to protect people from buying dangerous second-hand
products via the web.
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