With trade associations forced by logistics to plan Washington “fly-ins” months ahead of time, all too often their members arrive pumped up to lobby on the big bill of the year only to find Congress has already passed it – or delayed it until next year. But that wasn’t the case with NRF’s annual Washington [...]
You could hear the anger rising in the voice of Representative Steve Womack as he stood before a Washington hotel ballroom jammed with retailers this week. He was explaining how customers in an electronics store back home routinely use smartphones to check online prices of merchandise, then click “buy it now” in plain sight of [...]
It’s been a long road for sales tax fairness. The Marketplace Fairness Act is the culmination of more than 10 years of lobbying, testifying before Congress, and collaboration with local retailers to explain the advantage online retailers who don’t have to collect sales tax have over brick-and-mortar merchants who do. Over the years, lawmakers have [...]
The Senate is set to take a final vote next week on one of the biggest high-tech public policy questions of our times – whether Internet retailers should be required to collect sales tax the same as local stores. But retail trade associations from across the country are using one of the most low-tech traditions [...]
Congress is in recess this week, but debate over sales tax fairness hasn’t taken a vacation. On Monday night, NRF Vice President and Tax Counsel Rachelle Bernstein sat down with PBS’s Gwen Ifill on the NewsHour program to discuss what’s at stake. The Senate is set to vote May 6 on the Marketplace Fairness Act, [...]
Monmouth, Illinois is a typical American small town (population 9,244). Since it isn’t anchored by big industry or manufacturing, this rural Midwest town is woven together by the strength and ingenuity of the local retail community – the mom-and-pop shops and small businesses found along Main Street that are owned and operated by members of the [...]