Archive for William F. Shughart II
Internet Commerce Should Be Taxed?
Virginia Governor James Gilmore, chairman of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, hoped that the group would act quickly to make permanent Congress’s 1998 three-year moratorium on new Internet taxes. But faced with a Clinton administration policy statement objecting to any move that would ban the collection of sales taxes on online purchases, a letter [...]
1Jun2000 | William F. Shughart II | 0 comments | ContinuedBarbarians at Bill Gates
William Shughart is the Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics and holder of the Robert M. Hearin Chair in Business Administration at the University of Mississippi. It was a glorious fall day on the East Coast when Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Joel Klein stepped up to the microphone at a news conference [...]
1Apr2000 | William F. Shughart II | 0 comments | Continued-
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