****Tacoma, Washington Starts Taxing Internet Access

[Timothy C. May]

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

...and California wants 8.25%, Virgina wants 7.5%, ....., France wants 37%,
Iraq wants it all, and Singapore wants it shut down.

This is the flip side of regulatory arbitrage, I guess.

--Tim May


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