United States have agreed a short-term extension to the Internet Tax Freedom Act until December 11, 2014. The Republican-led House voted 319 to 108 to pass the continuing resolution on September 17, and, on the following day, the Senate followed suit with a vote of 73 to 22, so that both sides of Congress could go into recess until after November 4’s midterm elections.
Just as the temporary government-spending extension, passed in the same resolution, has been put in place in the hope of allowing lawmakers time to sort out a longer-term arrangement when they return after the election, the short-term extension to ITFA could allow more time for the Democrat supporters of the MFA to seek its inclusion in a bill to further extend the ITFA.
