States Fight Internet Tax Ban, Cite VoIP Concern

PetiePooo writes "From an article at PCWorld: The Multistate Tax Commission is fighting a bill which makes the moratorium on internet taxes permanent. Their complaint is that it could be interpreted to include VoIP telephony such as Packet8 and Vonage, and they would lose that lucrative tax base as people switch from incumbent providers. The House has already approved the bill. When will the politicians figure out that VoIP is a going to end up as a product, not a service? Voice will be just another form of data. Here's another related article."

Comments

money as it is is the issue

[koll64]

when will people realize that the concept of money does not fit to non-material digitally communicating world?

with the interexchangable information who has done what, the money has lost it's meaning. it have become just an object (to worship), not anymore information in form of coins/bills/whatever showing how much somebody has produced for others (society).

Even phone companies themselves call VoIP a produc

[joboosc]

internet tax has to be stopped

a better idea

[joboosc]

instead of taxing the internet, lets tax non-profit organizations. (they're all run by corrupted businessmen who reap profits and rob the poor)