[Gabz]

In Congress, Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., is leading an effort to tighten regulation of Internet cigarette sales. Meehan's chief of staff, Bill McCann, predicted bipartisan legislation would be drafted this year aimed at enforcing existing requirements that Internet merchants block sales to minors and report out-of-state buyers.

I've got no problem with the cracking down on sales to minors. But I was under the impression there is not to be collection of state taxes on internet sales.

And before anyone says there is a diference between sales tax and excise tax - I will state there isn't. If you don't buy the product, you don't pay the excise tax, therefore it is an additional sales tax on specific products.

If they get away with collecing the excise tax, what is going to stop them from collecting the sales tax on any other product????

[SheLion]

I didn't get pinged for this, Gabz. Didn't know it was already a thread.

I just re-did it tonight.