New Hampshire taxocrats may not tax chat rooms, Web mail, IM after all

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Background on 7 percent tax:
http://www.state.nh.us/revenue/faqs/dra_1600.htm

Actual proposal itself:
http://www.nh.gov/revenue/laws+rules/rev1600prop.doc

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http://news.com.com/New+Hampshire%3A+E-mail+free+or+die...for+now/2100-1028_3-5267854.html

New Hampshire: E-mail free or die...for now
Last modified: July 13, 2004, 12:45 PM PDT
By Declan McCullagh

New Hampshire's tax commissioner has temporarily abandoned plans to tax 
a broad swath of online services, including Internet phone calls, chat 
rooms, Web mail and instant messaging.

A representative of the Department of Revenue Administration said 
Tuesday that after encountering criticism of the proposal at a public 
hearing the day before, Commissioner G. Philip Blatsos had decided to 
leave any Internet tax decisions to the state legislature.

"Because this is a tremendously important policy issue, rather than go 
through the rulemaking process at this point, we should defer to the 
legislative study committee," said Val Berghaus, an assistant to 
Blatsos. "At the request of legislative leaders of the Ways and Means 
committee, (Blatsos) is going to defer to that request." The legislative 
committee is scheduled to convene Aug. 4.

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