The Direct Marketing Association (DMA), an association of companies and nonprofits with interests in multichannel direct marketing, released the following statement in response to legislation that would create barriers to interstate commerce on the Internet:

“These bills, in the best of economic times, are bad policy, as they interfere with the free-flow of commerce among the states, a principal upon which the United States was founded. In these difficult economic circumstances, placing new, unfunded mandates on out-of-state companies to comply with complex and changing tax structures in many states around the country will hamper e-commerce a fast growing segment in our economy.”

Visit the DMA\'s website to learn more about its opposition to Internet sales tax or watch DMA’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Jerry Cerasale, discuss the issue on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators.”