At 8:05 PM 8/7/96, James A. Donald wrote:

At 05:08 AM 8/7/96 GMT, Brian C. Lane wrote:

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A slight correction. They are imposing a 6% tax on the Gross receipts of all Internet Providers who have customers in Tacoma. This includes AOL, Compu$erve, and my local favorites - aa.net and eskimo.com

So if someone has six thousand customers, one of whom is in Tacoma, they want six percent of his gross on the other 5999 customers?

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