Internet Sale Tax Passes Senate. The House may not be that easy

A bill to allow states to collect taxes from online sales cruised through the Senate Monday with bipartisan support, but the legislation faces a slower, more complicated path through the GOP-controlled House. 

The delay will give opponents of the bill more time to mobilize against it and buy House leaders more time to see if there are enough votes to pass it. 

The Senate approved the bill Monday on a 69-27 vote. 

A bipartisan effort is percolating in the House to advance legislation similar to the Senate bill led by Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., and joined by leading Democrats, including Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. 

However, the bill has to go through the Judiciary Committee where the chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has voiced reservations about the bill's complexity and burdening business owners with the obligation to understand tax codes in other states. 

While it attempts to make tax collection simpler, it still has a long way to go," he said in a statement, suggesting that the House would seek to alter the Senate-passed bill. Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who controls the schedule, has not set a date for a House vote on the bill.

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