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Raiyven · 03-28-2007, 07:50 AM

Curse you and your logic, Nutz!

I dunno, I still have issues with it. I can see how it could want to be implemented insofar as its a transaction taking place between me in Ontario and, say, Billy Bob in Alabama, and as such the transaction would be subject to taxation seeing as how the seller and purchaser are in regions with their own tax laws. But at the same time, in my mind, the parties are regionalized but the transaction itself is taking place in the politically null space of the internet, unless the server or whatnot through which the transaction takes place (say, wherever the paypal server is. Lets say its in South Park, Colorado) is a politically-recognized entity because of its location and as such whatever transaction takes place on that server is subject to the tax laws of wherever that server is.

My brain hurts!!

03-28-2007, 07:50 AM	#10
Raiyven Big Bad Thread Boogeyman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Burlington, ON. Age: 42 Posts: 406	Curse you and your logic, Nutz! I dunno, I still have issues with it. I can see how it could want to be implemented insofar as its a transaction taking place between me in Ontario and, say, Billy Bob in Alabama, and as such the transaction would be subject to taxation seeing as how the seller and purchaser are in regions with their own tax laws. But at the same time, in my mind, the parties are regionalized but the transaction itself is taking place in the politically null space of the internet, unless the server or whatnot through which the transaction takes place (say, wherever the paypal server is. Lets say its in South Park, Colorado) is a politically-recognized entity because of its location and as such whatever transaction takes place on that server is subject to the tax laws of wherever that server is. My brain hurts!! __________________ "For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks." - Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE) Last edited by Raiyven; 03-28-2007 at 07:55 AM.