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How long will it be before the government controls the Internet?
Government is working hard to collect taxes on Internet sales.
A University of Tennessee study says the revenue lost on uncollected Internet sales taxes came to nearly $94 million dollars in West Virginia last year.
States have had problems cashing in on the taxes because a 1992 Supreme Court ruling says they can't force Internet retailers to collect them if they don't have a physical presence in a state.
Companies like Wal-Mart can charge taxes on on-line purchases, but popular on-line retailers like Amazon.com do not.
Most of the transactions the study cited were not retail purchases.
About 70 percent of the tax revenue that's going uncollected from on-line transactions comes from business-to-business transactions. | 
