Thread: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Old 15-07-2004, 13:26   #12
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by gary_580
Of course this cant ever happen. Which government would the tax be paid to? The country you live in? The country your sitting in when you send the mail? The country where the mail server is where you send the mail from? What if your not using a mail server to send the email?

This will never happen.
On top of that it is all very well creating a tax, but it will not work if you cannot find someone to collect it from. I can't see the ISPs agreeing to pay the tax and bill the users, so it would need to be built in at the user end. That would require something other than SMTP and coding changes to every mail app to be compliant, and then for all internet users to upgrade to an app that charges for sending mail.
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