Who can tax a satellite?

Bill Stewart bill.stewart at pobox.com
Wed Jul 18 13:47:33 PDT 2001



>At 02:30 PM 7/11/01 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote:
> >No, the real question is who can knock down or render inoperable the OWNER
> >of the satellite.

But ownership is easily fixed - a few magic words from a lawyer
(ok, with a lot of expensive research into tax and accounting issues first),
and the satellite is owned by a Caribbean corporation owned by Hughes,
so it's no longer physical property subject to Los Angeles property taxes.
That doesn't mean a tax collector can't try to attach one of Hughes's
buildings near LAX, but it becomes a much different problem.





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