No, you’re confusing taxes on internet access with taxes on purchases bought over the internet.
When the internet began, states started salivating at the thought of adding sales or telecommunications taxes to your bill from your ISP. The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act stopped those taxes (while grandfathering some states which had begun the practice). Check out Wikipedia’s article on Internet Taxes to learn more.
You can buy product by calling the company, or by ordering from a catalog through the U.S. mail, or through the internet. In all three cases, if the company you’re ordering from has presence in your state, you will have to pay sales tax on that purchase. You don’t escape the sales tax by ordering through the internet instead of ordering in some other fashion. And, if the company does not have nexus (a legal presence) in your state, you will owe a use tax to your state - essentially a sales tax on your purchase that you report to the state.
Nothing has changed re internet taxes. The only thing that changed is that you reside in a state in which Amazon has a legal presence. They’ve been collecting sales taxes for years and years in the states they’ve had nexus with.
Your right I was confused. I thought we were fighting for no taxes at all on the internet. I actually would rather have a telecommunications tax on my cable/internet bill with all items purchased over the internet sales tax free. Why do we care about such a small tax on a cable/internet bill.....what is it going to be a couple bucks. We are spending a couple hundred a month on internet purchases (depending on how much we buy). I can’t believe that is what we are trying to stop....a little tax on a bill. Good grief if I had known that I wouldn’t jump up and down when it doesn’t pass.......I thought it was a chance to save Americans real money.