US senators offered resistance to a proposed extension to the ban on internet taxes during a hearing yesterday. There is currently a formal ban on taxes levied on internet access. This moratorium on internet taxes expires on 1 November. Representatives of Verizon Communications and the National Taxpayer Union Foundation called on Congress to make the tax ban permanent, but several senators said the current ban could allow internet service providers to package other products with internet access and exempt them from taxes...When the moratorium was last debated in Congress in 2004, a group of senators, many of whom are former state government officials, raised concerns that the internet tax ban could cost states billions of dollars...