Burning Issues for Catalogers
ACMA is effectively managing a number of burning issues that directly affect the health & well-being of your business. Below are links to recent ACMA posts and media articles listed by topic. ACMA-generated items are in italics; all others are outside news or research materials:
Click to expand Postal Matters Links:
- ACMA’s Davison Takes Direct Marketing News Behind the Scenes on House Postal Reform Bill
- Postal Reform Bill Passed Out of House Oversight Committee
- Idealliance Report Finds ‘Chasm’ Between Industry and USPS
- Mailing Industry Could Face Big Changes By Year’s End
- House Unveils Postal Reform Bill Calling for 2.15% Rate Hike
- Mailing Industry Lawyer, Postal Union Chief Make Strange Bedfellows at National Catalog Forum
- PMG Brennan Delivers Keynote at National Postal Forum
- ACMA Tells Sen. Johnson It Opposes ‘Baked-In’ Exigent Rate Hike; Supports ‘Limited Postal Reform’
- ACMA Exploring Parcel Shipping NSA – See How You May Get Involved
- USPS Board Out of Governors: Now What?
- USPS Launches NY Test of New Informed Delivery Initiative – Email Alerts of the Day’s Mail
- USPS Files With PRC For 2016 Price Promotions
- Read Direct Marketing News Column on Catalog Industry’s Vital, Free Washington Fly-in, Oct. 20-21
- Hear ACMA Board Chairman Brad Darooge Discuss ACMA’s Big Event
- Postal Reform Bill Needs Work, But Needs to Be Passed
- Delaware Paper Backs New Carper Postal Reform Bill, But Ignores Big Mail’s Role in USPS’s Resuscitation
- Storm Capitol Hill With Other Catalog Execs; Help Control Your Postal Future
- USPS Takes PRC’s Exigency Ruling Back to Appeals Court
- Late Postal Deliveries Raise Concern
- PRC Remands Postal Rate Case For a Second Time
- New PMG Brennan to Push for Consensus Postal Reform Plan
- ACMA’s Davison Tells Washington Post That Postage Hike Will Hugely Impact Catalog Mailers
- Why Did USPS Choose Now to Implement a Rate Increase?
- Lawmakers Call Postal Reform a Priority, But Familiar Battle Lines Are Already Being Drawn
- USPS Announces Postal Rate Hike To Take Effect April 26th; ‘Underwater’ Standard Flats To Get Extra 0.5% Hit
- Outgoing PMG Donahoe Blames Unions, Mailer Interests for Inability to Pass Postal Reform
- PRC Rules on Timing of Exigency Rates’ Removal; Appeals Court Decision Could Soon Override It
- Mailer Groups File Whitepaper on 10-Year Review of Postal Rate Cap
- Postal Board Nominees Would Hand Rate-Setting Authority to USPS
- Cluster Box Bill Stirs Hope for Postal Reform
- House Postpones Mark Up of Postal Reform Bill; ACMA Member Action Pays Off
- Why Online Retailers Mail So Many Catalogs
- Report on March 12th Congressional Hearing on Internet Tax Collection
- ACMA President Hamilton Davison Discusses Current Postal Challenges in DM News Podcast
- What Will Postal Reform Mean to Catalogers?
- What If the USPS Disappears?
- How Senate Postal Bill Would Imperil Wisconsin’s Printing & Paper Industries
- ACMA President Hamilton Davison Discusses Current Postal Challenges in DM News Podcast
- PRC Approves Full Exigency Increase, But Limits It To 2 Years; ACMA Explores Options
- Catalogers Influence Public Policy at ACMA’s National Catalog Forum
- Op-Ed from ACMA Member Joel Quadracci:Congress Should Enact Meaningful Postal Reform
- Mailing Industry Coalition Appeals Exigency Increase; ACMA Lobbies Hard on The Hill; Funding Badly Needed Now
- New Draft of Senate Postal Reform Bill Contains Potentially Devastating Rate Hikes
- PRC Commissioner Goldway Explains Exigency Decision in Interview
- In Dissent, PRC Commissioner Taub Sides With Mailers
- ACMA Journal: Does PRC Decision Have a Silver Lining?
- Postal Service Still Losing Money, But No Movement on Legislation
- Collins (R-ME) Urges PRC to Reject USPS Exigency Rate Increase Request
- KC Star Opinion Piece Makes Strong Case For Postage Stability
- Mailers in Talks with Postal Unions to Forestall Rate Increase
- A Critical Examination of the USPS Study of Postal Price Elasticities
- Hard Road Ahead for Postal Reform Bill
- House Marks Up, Approves Postal Reform Bill
- Carper Promises to Get Senate Moving on Its Postal Reform Bill
- House Introduces Postal Reform Bill
- ACMA Issues Urgent Call to Action on Postal, Tax Crises
- PRC Releases Annual Compliance Determination
- GAO, Congress Look to Foil Move to 5-Day Delivery
- Congress Aims to Prohibit USPS From Zapping Saturday Delivery
- An Independent Review of Through-Leader Concept to Reform the U.S. Postal Service
- World’s Postal Services Struggle With Lower Demand
- ACMA Initial Comments on 2012 ACD
- ACMA Reply Comments on 2012 ACD
- ACMA Surreply Comments on 2012 ACD
- Save the Postal Service From Collapse
- Goodbye USPS?
- Ailing U.S. Postal Service Tries to Avoid Twinkie’s Fate
- Rates for Standard Flats (Catalogs) May Go Up Higher in 2013
- PRC Remands Postal Rate Case for Standard Flats
- ACMA Journal: Postal Service’s Good, Better & Ugly
- USPS To Default for 2d Time on Retiree Health Benefits Pre-funding Payment
- ACMA Postal Reform Talking Points
- IMb Webinar Presentation Materials Available
- How USPS Got to the Brink
- Postal Service Set to Default on Billions in Health Fund Payments
- ACMA June Postal Alert
- House Postal Reform Bill Put Off Till Fall
- ACMA Wants Hard-wired Rate Increase Dropped from House Postal Reform Bill
Click to expand Tax Issues Links:
- Sensenbrenner to State Tax Grabbers: Lay Off Out-of-Staters!
- Are New Tax Rules for Out-of-State Retailers Unconstitutional?
- DMA v. Brohl—Is It Time to Stop Fighting the Last War?
- ACMA Column in The Hill: Stop Bullying Small Businesses for Sales Tax Collection
- E-Retailers, Congress Feel Heat From States’ Digital Tax Frenzy
- Amazon Caves to Alabama Tax Regulation
- Click Here to Find Out How YOU Can Help Advance The Preferred Remote Sales Tax Alternative
- ACMA, TruST Partner NetChoice Sue South Dakota Over Unconstitutional Internet Sales Tax Law
- From ACMA Forum: Foes of Internet Sales Tax Issue Spill Blood at National Catalog Forum
- Why Chaffetz’s Remote Transaction Parity Act is Unfair
- Circuit Court Decision Clears the Way for Colorado to Tax Catalogers
- Alabama’s Poised for Tax Battle
- Alabama Revenue Dept. Speaks Out About Its Challenge to Quill
- Quill Founder Jack Miller Backs ACMA Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
- Business Groups, U.S. Chamber Call For House to Consider Sales Tax Legislation
- ACMA Op-ed: How State Revenuers Are Going After E-Commerce (Wall St. Journal log-on required)
- Fortune Magazine Commentary: Why a National Internet Sales Tax Is a Really Bad Idea
- States Set Up Fight Over Web Sales Tax (Wall St. Journal log-on required)
- Merchants Sit Idle as State Defies Supreme Court Sales-Tax Ruling
- ACMA Makes Urgent Appeal for Help Fighting Alabama Tax
- ACMA, TruST Gear Up for Remote Sales Tax Battle in Alabama
- Why Import Europe’s Broken Internet Sales Tax System?
- Taxing Your Online Shopping Spree
- House Approves Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act
- H.’s Ayotte Leads Brigade of Senators in Renewing Opposition to Online Sales Tax
- Chaffetz Bill Contains a Hidden Tax on Small Businesses
- Will Boehner’s Departure Stall Remote Sales Tax Bills?
- ACMA Member Louis Giesler Says Chaffetz Bill Would Be Hard on Senior Catalog Shoppers
- ACMA Members Kavanagh & Bessin Offer 8 Reasons to Oppose Chaffetz Remote Sales Tax Bill
- ACMA Member Terri Alpert on Why Chaffetz Bill is Worse than MFA
- Hamilton Davison Commentary on Chaffetz Bill
- Wyden Reaction to Chaffetz Bill
- Pan of Chaffetz Bill From The Hill
- New Remote Sales Tax Simplification Bill Less Onerous Than MFA or State Initiatives
- Congress Extends Internet Tax Freedom Act For Another Year
- Supreme Court Deliberating Over Colorado ‘Rat-Your-Customer-Out’ Tax Case
- House Members Declare Marketplace Fairness Act Dead for 113th Congress; Will Take it Up in 114th
- Ted Cruz Rails At GOP Colleagues Over Possible MFA-ITFA Coupling
- (See also NetChoice report; DM News report)
- ACMA Op-Ed in Roll Call: Boehner’s Stand on Internet Taxes: The Right Choice for the Right Reasons
- Congress Determined to Push for MFA Passage Post-Election
- MFA Could Cost Taxpayers $340B, According to National Taxpayers Union Report
- ACMA Op-Ed in The Hill: House Seeks True Fairness in Remote Sales Tax Debate
- com Chairman Rips MFA; Calls For No Attachment to Passage of ITFA
- Senate Ploy to Impose Internet Sales Taxes Tops List of ACMA TruST Partner NetChoice’s Bad Internet Laws
- House Votes to Make Internet Tax Freedom Act Permanent; Senate Looks to Attach MFA Passage
- TruST Urges Senate Not to Attach “Flawed” MFA to ITFA
- Tax Foundation Releases Pro-MFA Whitepaper
- Hopes for Passage of a Federal Remote Sales Tax Law Fade as 113th Congress Winds Down
- Report on March 12th Congressional Hearing on Internet Tax Collection
- ACMA Member The MAIL Group Scores Tax Nexus Victory in Indiana
- ‘Reverse Showrooming’: Bricks-And-Mortar Retailers Fight Back
- Marketplace Fairness Act Would Be As Hard to Implement As Obamacare
- Baucus Proposal Could Harm Catalogers
- Is There Really Any Way to Collect Sales Taxes Under the Marketplace Fairness Act?
- GOP Primary Candidates Wrestling With Support of Marketplace Fairness Act
- TruST Postcard Package-Stuffer Program Seeks Catalog Shoppers Input on Marketplace Fairness Act
- Online Tax Fairness Act Will Hurt Small Businesses
- e-Retailers Voice Concerns Over Internet Sales Tax Collection
- Gallup Poll Shows Americans Oppose Senate-Proposed Internet Sales Tax
- Why Are Washington Decision Makers Forgetting Catalogs Still Exist?
- CT Merchant Group Opposed to MFA Makes Case with Rep. DeLauro
- Forbes Spotlights ACMA Member’s Battle to Defeat MFA
- Editorial: ‘Marketplace Fairness Act Has It Backwards’
- Internet Sales Tax Opponents Rally House Staffers To Keep Republicans In Line
- Dummy Catalog Order Form Guide – Post Marketplace Fairness Act Passage
- Act Now or Collect Sales Taxes Forever
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- Senator Ayotte Slams Marketplace Fairness Act
- ACMA Opposes ‘New’ Marketplace Fairness Act
- Senators’ Efforts to Add Overturning of Quill to Tax Defense Bill Falls Short
- Tax Collection Bills Top NetChoice’s iAwful List
- List of Quill Defenders Grows: New Coalition Enters the Fray in Fighting
- Use-Tax Bills
- C. Senator DeMint Speaks Out Against Marketplace Fairness Act
- Make Your Donation to Join TruST – True Simplification of Taxation Coalition Today
- Poll Shows Majority of NJ Households Against Online Sales Tax Collection
- Area Governments Stand to Gain Nearly $900M From Online Sales Tax
- Quill Update – July 30, 2012 – Now the Real Work Begins
- Survey Shows 84% of Consumers Favor Retaining Quill Tax Law
- ACMA, Other Associations Form TruST Coalition
- Wondering Just What We’re Up Against? Then Read This
- ACMA Tax Talking Points re: Marketplace Equity Act
- Quill Defense Call to Action
- ACMA Sample Pro-Quill Tax Letter to Congress
- Online Sales Tax Bill Under Scrutiny in House Committee
- House Judiciary Committee Holds Tax Hearing
- ACMA’s Written Testimony for House Judiciary Tax Hearing
- Walmart Turns to Lobbying for Online Sales Tax
- Whitepaper on The Impact of Tax Legislation
- Conflicting Views on Tax Bill
- Pro-Quill Voice Speaks Up
- NRF’s Pro-Tax Argument
- Online Tax to be Offered as Amendment to Small Business Bill