A Senate panel has endorsed a bill to ban local taxes aimed at the Internet and online computer services and transactions.

The bill, opposed by many states and cities currently taxing Internet services, cleared the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on a 14-5 vote Tuesday."The Internet will be the business infrastructure of the 21st Century," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the bill's chief sponsor.

"To subject it to as many as 30,000 taxing jurisdictions applying different rules of taxation would be a mistake," he said.

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The bill would declare a five-year moratorium on any state or local taxes specifically directed at Internet use or electronic commerce.

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