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Bid to Tax Satellites Rejected

Posted by michael on from the tax-shelter dept.

Kierthos writes: "This article updates an earlier Slashdot story about the Los Angeles County Assessor's office trying to tax satellites in orbit around the Earth. Short version: no go, the satellites don't get taxed."

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  1. Re:Well, Brazil et al might have a case... by sphealey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I don't know if there's any international law/agreement on how high a country's jurisdiction extends"

    As Jerry Pournelle has pointed out, there are 5 countries in the world that can put objects INTO orbit, and two who can probably knock objects down FROM orbit (US and Russia; yes, I know, we claim we don't have such a weapon). Everyone else is free to make whatever laws they want; enforcing them would be the hard part.

    sPh