Senator Lee (R-UT) recently visited eBay’s Utah campus in Draper, UT, to meet with company executives and employees.  During the visit, the Senator learned more about eBay’s evolving business and toured eBay’s new facility.  He also took questions from eBay employees ranging from “What is Congress doing to help small businesses?” to “How do we become a more competitive country?”.

Kevin Hickey, CEO of Online Stores Inc., recently penned an op-ed explaining how burdensome and costly it would be for small businesses if the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act would pass and every state and jurisdiction would now have the ability to audit small businesses all across the country.  In his op-ed, Mr. Hickey shares his own frustrating experience dealing with an audit from his own state of Pennsylvania and the time and money it cost his business.

Last week PayPal's General Counsel, John Muller, was a luncheon panelist with Representative Joe Atkins from Minnesota and Marianne Crowe, Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston and head of the Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup, to discuss the state of mobile payments and the regulatory environment that they operate within at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual Legislative Summit in Atlanta, Georgia.  The panel discussed the current mobile payments ecosystem, the potential concerns with consumer privacy and security and the regulatory regimes that mo

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John Stack, owner of A City Discount in Atlanta, Georgia, recently wrote his local paper expressing his concerns with the Internet sales tax legislation that is currently before the U.S. House of Representatives.  As the owner of a family-run business that has been in operation for over 40 years, Mr.