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PRINTER'S NO. 1988
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
389
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY PASHINSKI, THOMAS, SCHLOSSBERG, CALTAGIRONE AND
READSHAW, JUNE 13, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, JUNE 13, 2017
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Urging the Congress of the United States to pass the Marketplace
Fairness Act during the first session of the 115th Congress
to assist state and local governments in the collection of
revenues due to local governments that are essential to local
and regional economic expansion.
WHEREAS, 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 residents and fund essential
services; and
WHEREAS, Local small businesses confront 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; and
WHEREAS, National studies reveal that state and local
governments lose more than $11 billion each year from
uncollected sales taxes from transactions involving remote
Internet retailers; and
WHEREAS, State and local associations, including the
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Government Finance Officers Association, the National League of
Cities, the National Association of Counties, the United States
Conference of Mayors and the National Governors Association,
along with partners in the retail community, worked together for
years to develop a fair and easy system to collect and remit
these sales taxes, structuring a system of collection based on
the purchaser's location; and
WHEREAS, Through this collaborative effort, an effective and
efficient response in eliminating the competitive disadvantage
faced by our local small business retailers appeared in 2013
when the United States Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness
Act through a bipartisan effort, which would have established a
fair system for the collection of existing taxes owed to state
and local governments; and
WHEREAS, The Marketplace Fairness Act has been stalled
through inaction by the United States House of Representatives
and the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of
Representatives, chaired by the Honorable Bob Goodlatte, for
more than three years; and
WHEREAS, Time has long passed for continued and inexplicable
inaction, and 2017 presents the opportunity for the new Congress
to demonstrate political courage and break the unwarranted and
unjustified stalemate by moving the Marketplace Fairness Act
from the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House
of Representatives to a vote on the floor of the House of
Representatives during the first session of the 115th Congress;
therefore be it
RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania urge Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Chairman Bob
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Goodlatte and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of the
United States House of Representatives to move the Marketplace
Fairness Act out of the Committee on the Judiciary with a
recommendation for passage by the United States House of
Representatives; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the General Assembly urge the Congress of the
United States to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act during the
first session of the 115th Congress and send the clear and
unequivocal message to states and localities that the Congress
of the United States supports owners of small businesses who
create jobs, produce revenues to support essential
infrastructure improvements and create a stronger and more
resilient economy for the benefit of all Americans; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
The Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives; The Honorable Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the
Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of
Representatives; the presiding officers of each house of
Congress; and each member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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