Update on State and Local Revenue Loss From Internet Sales

Abstract

The GAO has examined the Census Bureau's estimates of e-commerce in 1999 to determine whether they would provide a basis for us to revise any of the results we presented in our 2000 report on sales tax losses from e-commerce. In that report, we used a range of available private-sector forecasts of Internet and total remote sales as the basis for several scenarios illustrating the impact of such sales on state and local sales and use tax revenues. The scenarios showed that there is considerable uncertainty about the size of the impacts and how various assumptions about sales, compliance, and other factors contribute to that uncertainty. The purpose of this letter is to present our conclusions from a review of the Census estimates.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA397069

Entities

People

  • James R. White

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Computer Networks
  • Congress
  • Consumers
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Internet
  • Networks
  • Retail
  • Uncertainty
  • United States

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Networking
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.