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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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