This week, PayPal and eBay joined forces with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to give consumers some helpful security tips, as well as update folks on how we keep people secure online.

This week, opponents of the Senate-passed Internet sales tax held a press conference on Capitol Hill to call on Congress to keep the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act out of the lame duck session. Participants included Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Senator-elect Steve Daines (R-MT), Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and a number of taxpayer advocacy groups and think tanks. During the press conference, Cruz said that the online sales tax proposal is directed against the little guys.

This week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) released a video advocating for Congress to reject any attempt to further taxing Internet access and sales. Senator Cruz has been a vocal opponent of the Marketplace Fairness Act, which passed the U.S. Senate in May of 2013. The legislation, if passed, would create a dizzying maze of new sales tax mandates for hundreds of thousands of tech-enabled small businesses across the country.

Last week, the International Trade Administration hosted a webinar on Exporting to Canada. The webinar provided participants an opportunity to:

In the last few weeks, a number of groups and organizations across the country have publicly expressed concerns with the Marketplace Fairness Act. Although House leaders have been clear that they have no intention to pass the legislation, Senate leaders have expressed their intent to move the bill in the final weeks of Congress.

Justin Vélez-Hagan, Executive Director of the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce,  recently expressed his opposition to the Marketplace Fairness Act in an article in The Hill. In the article, Hagan argued that more taxes and regulations, especially within a prosperous sector like the Internet, will not be beneficial to the economy, nor its millions of small businesses and employees.

This week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) penned an opinion piece in the Washington Post advocating for Congress to reject any attempt to further taxing Internet access and sales. Senator Cruz has been a vocal opponent of the Marketplace Fairness Act, which passed the U.S. Senate in May of 2013.