[92763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Tue Oct 10 13:32:24 2006
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:30:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Reply-To: froomkin@law.tm
To: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <452BB971.8050600@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Feh. Any government with real tax mojo will tax both of them on the
gross, not the net. This isn't the milquetoast VAT, you know.
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Roy wrote:
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> However, since the customer must beam back light as part of the exchange
> then you must track the number of pulses in both directions and
> determine the difference. Some days the customer gets more energy and
> some days it doesn't. That should affect the tax.
>
>
>
(OBSerious: I bet it's not true.)
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