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In article 11276@mindlink.bc.ca, Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack) writes:
>
>In British Columbia, a Canadian province on the west coast (Pacific Ocean-side)
>the government sees FAX as a "handy source of revenue" (quotes are mine!). In
>the latest budget for the province, the government has started charging sales
>tax on FAX transmissions. Obviously, this tax must be collected by the
>telephone company, who inadvertently become tax collectors thru their
>accounting process.
>
It would seem that it is acceptable to charge a tax on fax transmissions if a company
is charging someone to do the transmission for them, but this would be a simple sales
tax.
Otherwise, it would make sense to just read the document over the phone to someone,
unless there are graphics in the document.

I believe there has been some effort on behalf of the United States government to
try to tax electronic data transfers of any kind (i.e. modem use, etc.).  This has been
met with great resistance and they have not YET been successful.

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Keith Freedman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
freedman@ilmen.lanl.gov