****Tacoma, Washington Starts Taxing Internet Access 07/30/96

[James A. Donald]

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