Why are internet ad taxes gaining momentum?

What’s happening? A guy left his east coast home to visit his Mom in a flyover state. His phone then got a lot of ads for a toothpaste his Mom uses, but they never discussed and he never googled. He tweeted. It got retweeted over 160,000 times. The tweet explains how tech companies can latch onto other devices on the same network- and viola’ random toothpaste ads. Or, like if my parents ever visited me, they’d be bombarded with organic gardening ads.

Why is this important? The proliferation of unwanted Internet ads and Big Tech’s staggering pandemic profits have fueled bipartisan efforts to tax digital ads

How will this be importation? There’s an appetite for these ads to stop, so there’s an appetite for these ads to be taxed.

Government Technology | Lawmakers on Right and Left Unite in Desire to Tax Online Ads