ALSO CALLED: Taxation DEFINITION: In the U.S., NET FAIR, which is short for the New Economy Tax Fairness Act, is a proposed bill (S664) that would define clear standards by which a business or individual can be considered to have sufficient economic ties to a particular state or locality to justify taxation by that entity with the assumption
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TAX LAW DEFINITION (continued): that it could not be taxed by comparable entities elsewhere. (Such economic ties are known as 'nexus' in legalese.) The bill was introduced in the 107th Congress on March 29, 2001 by Senators Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.
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