Taxing The Internet

So, you think that e-mails or the internet cannot be taxed? Or that taxing your e-mails was nothing but the most transparent of hoaxes?

Perhaps you should think again.

This time, we have temporarily avoided that bullet.

But do NOT think that it will not be placed onto future Demorat tax screens:

The Senate has approved a seven-year extension of the Internet tax ban and has adjusted the moratorium’s language to protect online services such as e-mail from taxation.

The Senate voice vote comes one week after the House passed a bill calling for a four-year moratorium. The ban, which prevents state and local authorities from taxing Internet access and related services, was first approved in 1998, and was set to expire Nov. 1.

Tax ban proponents had been seeking a permanent ban, but most had conceded that four years was the best-case scenario. The seven-year ban approved by the Senate came as an 11th-hour surprise, according to those familiar with the issue.

Again, you think the World Wide Web is a free society with little control or taxation? If your Congress thought about not taxing it now, do not think they won't consider taxing it later:

In recent days, technology experts had become increasingly concerned not only about the tax ban’s expiration, but about new language in the House version that would have exposed common online services such as e-mail to taxation by state and local governments.

According to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, changes to the language in the tax ban approved by the House exposed many online services to local taxation.

When people say it's not about the money, it's ALL about the money.

And trust me, when the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT even remotely suspects it's losing out on a taxable strata, it WILL find, identify and then TAX that strata.

Free e-mails? Free access?

NFL, folks. And that doesn't stand for the National Football League.

BZ