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Re: Spending a year dead for tax purposes
> Now, the US government _could_ declare a 50% import duty on imported software
> (avoiding the uncollectability of income tax) which would of course be evaded.
> The government could respond to this by requiring all software
> to include a serial # and the TaxID number of the vendor
> (if the vendor is an importer, then she'd have to have Customs Receipts
> or other documentation of US origin to expense her costs for tax purposes.)
>
> In this environment, the employees would have to remain unknown to the US,
> but might be known to the Aliceco or Caribsoft. Of course, Alice may be a Fed,
> or Caribsoft employee Paul may be a Plant, so there are
> some benefits to pseudonymity; depends on how paranoid you need to be.
>
> Or they could declare Anguilla to be an Economic-Terrorist Enemy,
> covered by the Trading With The Enemies (Especially Cuba) Act.
> Restricting acceptance of foriegn digicash would be difficult.
Or they could distribute software electronically and require digital cash
as payment, avoiding the whole issue.
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