Posted by Goofy1742 Day ago, There are 8 comments, 4025 views
How would you like to pay tax on top of paying your ISP for your internet connection?
An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data connections this year.
The committee, deeply involved in writing U.S. tax laws, unexpectedly said in a report Thursday that the 3 percent telecommunications tax could be revised to cover "all data communications services to end users," including broadband; dial-up; fiber; cable modems; cellular; and DSL, or digital subscriber line, links.
The congressional report comes not long after the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department said they were considering how the Spanish American War tax should be reinterpreted "to reflect changes in technology" used in "telephonic or telephonic quality communications." Tech companies including Microsoft, Intel and Skype slammed that idea in a September letter, asking the IRS to "refrain from any attempt to extend the excise tax to VoIP services."
The discussion in the tax committee's report, however, ventures far beyond VoIP. "Extending the tax to all communications requires taxing Internet access, bandwidth capacity, and the transmission of cable and satellite television," it says.
Congress enacted the so-called "luxury" excise tax at 1 cent a phone call to pay for the Spanish American War back in 1898, when only a few thousand phone lines existed in the country. It was repealed in 1902, but was reimposed at 1 cent a call in 1914 to pay for World War I and eventually became permanent at a rate of 3 percent in 1990.
Re: Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections by thexfile on 2005-01-31 05:27:39
“taxation without representation” plain and simple!
Re: Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections by hedgem on 2005-01-31 12:55:07
amerika should stop violating rules and the law.
They should give the land back to Britain and obey British law, then Britain should give the land back to the native people. The U.S. is just a megapower of rebelistic and non-lawabiding people. Taxes are
a euphemism for downright stealing.
Re: Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections by lumin4 on 2005-01-31 13:12:57
Lot's of talk of paying for wars here by
Congress!
Just maybe the war in Iraq is starting
to be feeling its financial toll, with the lunatic
Bush asking Congress for another 80 Billion
installment for this next phase,
it seems that Congress is left in a pinch to
come up with the money.
And we all know that "money" is NOT Bush's
major concern. He's got more on his mind;
and that being, ridding the World of terrorists
for the Christian cause (and also to please daddy.)
Re: Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections by Angelico_Payne on 2005-01-31 19:54:34
They will find a way to implement it, and that will be only the beginning. And gentlemen, don't it on the "american people" , they are just as victimes as you and I...
I tell you, this is just the beginning, tip of an iceberg.
I am an American, and remember that more than 48% of us DID NOT vote in Bush and his crew!!!! They got in through cheating again, a mockery of the democratic system that "W" is trying to champion in the mid-east. I am surprised Bush has not decalared himself the winner in the Iraq elections.
As for the American "Christians" its time to feed them to the lions again.
Re: Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections by f600771k on 2005-02-01 03:35:48
I am an American, and remember that more than 48% of us DID NOT vote in Bush and his crew!!!! They got in through cheating again, a mockery of the democratic system that "W" is trying to champion in the mid-east. I am surprised Bush has not decalared himself the winner in the Iraq elections.
As for the American "Christians" its time to feed them to the lions again.
Re: This must be a joke? by Angelico_Payne on 2005-02-01 19:51:33
"is this a joke or what????
this MUST be a joke!!!!"
That's what the Jews were saying when Hitler started implementing new "LAWS"....you know the rest.
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