DMA Discourages Senators from Passing the Marketplace Fairness Act: he Direct Marketing Association (DMA) wrote a letter to the U.S. Senate discouraging its members from passing the current draft of the Marketplace Fairness Act (S.743)—a bill that would give states the power to require remote sellers, including e-commerce sites and catalogers, to collect sales tax. The Senate agreed to move the bill to the floor for debate in a 74 to 20 procedural vote that occurred Monday evening.
In the letter, the DMA claims that the Marketplace Fairness Act “has not received a full vetting and markup in a Senate committee” and asks that the Senate not pass the bill until outlined simplification requirements are met.
