New Hampshire To Tax Instant Messaging, Email And Chat Rooms
from the brilliantly-stupid dept
Brian writes in to point out that "New Hampshire's tax collecting agency wants to apply a 7 percent tax on a variety of telephone and Internet services from chat rooms to voice mail." They also include web mail and instant messaging in the things that would be taxed. This is even more ridiculous than Florida's plans to tax your WiFi network. The New Hampshire "Department of Revenue Administration" tries to lamely justify this new tax, saying they're just updating old rules for new technologies, but can't seem to come up with a good justification for doing this... perhaps because there is no good justification for doing this.
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Re: New Hampshire To Tax Instant Messaging, Email
Money is the reason. Duhhhhh.....
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Aren't they the ones
that make their obnoxious boasts about having no property tax? There is a price to pay for that, in the end.
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Re: New Hampshire To Tax Instant Messaging, Email
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
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Re: New Hampshire To Tax Instant Messaging, Email
" And if it stops moving, subsidize it. "
The reason we have affirmative action ...
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So much for "Live free and die"
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Re: Aren't they the ones
Yeah, but geez, who wants to live in New Hampshire?
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Re: Aren't they the ones
Its Sales and income taxes
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Re: Aren't they the ones
Right you are: no sales or income tax, but the NH property taxes more than make up for that.
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Heh, its not like they arnt getting enough money anyways. They probably need the money to buy their 4th mansion
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