Florida Ponders Communication Tax on LANs

victor_the_cleaner writes "Here in Florida, a little known tax provision may lead to LANs being taxed. According to the article, 'The provision was intended to make sure companies operating their own land line communication systems, which two decades ago was limited to large utilities and railroads, were paying the same taxes paid by those who rely on commercial phone carriers. About 10 companies (in Florida) pay more than $1.2 million annually based on that definition. However, the statute is so broadly worded that it could be interpreted to describe a local area network.' Internal auditors at the city of Tampa noticed a couple of years ago that the substitute communications service provision was still there and asked state officials why it wasn't being enforced. And now people like Sharon Fox, the city of Tampa's tax revenue coordinator are pushing for enforcement."

Comments

Re:justification

[fucksl4shd0t]

$15 for a hammer? Holy shit! My hammer cost me $50. Of course, it's a fine Snap-On hammer and will probably beat the hell out of any $15 hammer you care to throw at me....

Re:Home enforcement?

[LaCosaNostradamus]

Funny how we have this big bad standing army to protect us and the only thing it ever seems to be doing is policing other countries that can't solve their own problems and invading foreign nations.

Why, the next thing we know, you're going to point out that cruise missiles and carrier groups are not defensive weapons ... oh, waitaminnut.

On the serious side, it's sad that the vast majority of Americans don't realize that their military is mostly a mercenary force setup for attacking other countries. It's happening literally at this very second in the Middle East. While Reagan was talking about the "Evil Empire" of the Soviet Union, America was a well established Empire ... but Americans didn't want to admit it. Credit where credit's due: I'm seeing the term "empire" in more contexts now. At least honesty of a sort is emerging.