Anti-tax groups say Iowans oppose online tax collectors
The National Taxpayers Union and the R Street Institute this week released a poll of 400 likely Iowa voters who were surveyed in May. They said 67 percent of Iowa respondents were opposed to the idea of a plan that would “allow tax enforcement agents from one state to collect taxes from online retailers based in a different state.” Twenty-three percent were in favor. The survey was conducted by Mercury Public Strategies and had an error margin of plus or minus 4.9 percent.
“Voters in the Hawkeye State evidently believe that the Internet should exist to improve the lives of Iowa’s citizens, rather than serve as a highway to bigger government,” said Andrew Moylan, executive director and senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based group that supports free markets and limited government.
