Internet Taxation

[Rankine, Alastair]

The latest column from Robert Cringely is about the current moves in the US
government to prohibit state taxes on sales made over the internet.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981008.html

He talks about the possibility that _all_ transactions, even low dollar
retail transactions, will have an internet component deliberately introduced
in order to avoid state taxes. I can't help thinking that the same could
happen here. How will we pay GST on internet sales, for instance? And will
we go "online" in order to avoid paying it?

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 Alastair Rankine             Senior Software Engineer	
 mailto:arankine@lucent.com   Lucent Technologies
 phone: +61-2-98868926        Bell Labs Australia