Internet sales tax move is biggest gripe for Web companies

Lawmakers’ attempts to attach an Internet sales tax to a bill preventing a tax on Internet access topped a group of Web companies’ list of bad laws for 2014.

The legislative maneuver was the top issue on a “watchlist for ugly laws” released by the trade group NetChoice, which includes Web titans like Google, Facebook, eBay and AOL.

Items on NetChoice’s semi-regular list of troublesome laws are ranked by how much harm they could cause the online economy and the chances of them being implemented.