Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 03-07-2017
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Office of the City Attorney
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Consideration, discussion, and possible approval of Resolution No. 992, a Resolution of the Broken Arrow City Council urging all United States Senators to reintroduce the Marketplace Fairness/Digital Parity Act into the United States Senate during its 2017 session; urging all members of the House Judiciary Committee to act on the Marketplace Fairness/Digital Parity Act or other legislation to collect and remit sales taxes structured on a system of collection bases upon the purchaser's location; urging the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives to hold votes to pass the Marketplace Fairness/Digital Parity Act or other legislation to collect and remit sales taxes structured on a system of collection based upon the purchaser's location during the 2017 session; and directing the City Clerk to provide attested copies of this Resolution to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate, the Honorable James Inhofe, United States Senator, and the Honorable James Lankford, United States Senator
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Background:
Many State and Local governments rely on the collection of sales and use taxes to support funding to improve needed infrastructure improvements, strengthen local small businesses, create jobs for their citizens, and fund essential services. Local small business confronts expanded competition from the explosion of Internet sales by remote sellers who are unwilling to collect and remit properly assessed sales taxes to State and Local governments. National studies reveal that State and Local governments lose approximately $30 Billion each year from uncollected sales taxes from transactions involving remote Internet retailers. It is estimate...
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