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Article #73455Re: New York Begins Taxing BBS's
From: TJ Goldstein
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1991 01:58
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1991 01:58
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Seems to me that if someone obtains Shareware and then pays for
it, it would be the AUTHOR, the recipient of the money, who
should remit the sales tax. The BBS is just a "library" where the
stuff can be obtained. It's like a university library. You have
to be, in most cases, a student, to use it. Therefore you are, in
a sense, paying for your access. But nobody is taxing the books
you borrow.
As for public domain, hey, I say it's worth... oh... $1? That
means the tax is ... what, 8 cents? Who's going to prove any
different. If I can "sell" someone a car for $1, why not a
computer program?
--
TJ Goldstein tlg4@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu
Assistant Sysop, Science Fiction and Fantasy SIG: Media Forums
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,a22d88c9c0d31ce1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-10 23:45:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!tlg4 From: tlg4@po.CWRU.Edu (TJ Goldstein) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: New York Begins Taxing BBS's Message-ID: <1991Sep11.015831.26299@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 11 Sep 91 01:58:31 GMT References: <1991Sep10.180959.23203@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: tlg4@po.CWRU.Edu (TJ Goldstein) Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: cwns5.ins.cwru.edu