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NY tax on information services
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 19:50:35 -0500
Russell Nelson writes:
September 1, 1993 New York Newsday By Joshua Quittner Starting today, metropolitan New York residents will pay a hefty 13.25% sales tax on information services they get over phones and computers - the highest tax on information services in the country, experts say.IMHO, this is not true (but it sure makes good press). Reading over the text of the law, it appears to be targetting the 900/800 oral information providers. It specifically excludes anything customized for the particular user, and it specifically excludes written materials.
Yes, but apparently the New York authorities disagree with you. See _Newsday_, 9/6: " The Budget Division and the Department of Taxation and Finance agree that the 5-percent surcharge also applies to such wildly popular computer services as CompuServe, Prodigy and America on Line. So, in addition to taxing the poor souls who use those sex-phone services, the new law goes after a more sophisticated and altogether more resourceful crowd, the computer literate." Steve Haynes * Stephen L. Haynes Internet: shaynes () research westlaw com * Manager, WESTLAW Research MCI Mail: 221-3969 * & Development Compuserve: 76236,3547 * West Publishing Company Phone: 612/687-5770 * 610 Opperman Drive Fax: 612/687-7907 * Eagan, MN 55123
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