A new poll was released this weekend showing that Americans are fundamentally opposed to taxing Internet commerce.  Rasmussen Reports has found that a mere 20% of individuals support taxing e-commerce, such as books, movies, music, and ringtones purchased online, while 61% oppose it.

The poll comes as numerous states continue pushing for taxes on goods purhcased online.  Additionally, the Federal Communication Commission's National Broadband Plan released last month contains a section discussing the future tax treatment of digital goods and services:

Recognizing that state and local governments pursue varying approaches to raising tax revenues, a national framework for digital goods and services taxation would reduce uncertainty and remove one barrier to online entrepreneurship and investment. (pg. 58)

While this goal is fairly ambiguous, we hope the effort would work in the same way as the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prevented states from further taxing Internet access.  As noted by the poll above, a nationwide effort to ensure e-commerce is taxed in all states would be completely unwelcome.