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WASHINGTON The online sales tax bill that sailed relatively easily through the U.S. Senate is facing tougher scrutiny in the House of Representatives, analysts say.

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After passing with bipartisanship support in the Senate, an online sales tax proposal faces a much more difficult path in the House of Representatives, with opposition already mounting from tax-averse Republicans.

Listening to U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, tell it, the issue of Internet taxation is not an issue of raising revenue.

Rep. Steve Womack is trying to drum up support among House Republicans for a bill to help states with the collection of sales tax for online purchases.

In a vote of 69 to 27 Monday evening, the Senate approved the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would allow states to compel online retailers to collect sales tax.

The sales taxes would be sent to the states where a shopper lives. Current law says states can only require retailers to collect sales taxes if the merchant has a physical presence in the state.

The U.S. Senate today passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, taking a major step toward a new law designed to greatly expand the number of Internet and catalog retailers required to collect sales tax.

The Senate on Monday is expected to pass a bill that would allow states to collect sales taxes when consumers buy goods online.

Supporters of the proposed Internet sales tax like to make it sound as though they just care about the little guy, the shopkeeper still intrepid enough to keep the doors open at her bricks-and-mortar store on Main Street.

Republicans are in disarray over a proposal that would allow state and local governments to require online retailers to collect sales taxes on internet sales.

California would get billions of dollars in additional revenue each year -- more than any other state -- if Congress passes a Republican-sponsored online sales-tax bill that has the backing of state Democratic senators and President Barack Obama, supporters say.

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Last Wednesday Jeff brought you thew news about the online marketplace fairness bill that was on pace to be voted on either this weekend or early next week.

A bill to require Internet shoppers to pay sales taxes for online purchases may be cruising through the Senate but it will soon hit a roadblock in the House.

California would get billions of dollars in additional revenue each year -- more than any other state -- if Congress passes a Republican-sponsored online sales-tax bill that has the backing of California's Democratic senators and President Barack Obama, supporters say.