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Re: ****Tacoma, Washington Starts Taxing Internet Access 07/30/96




On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:

>   	  				 
> >WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1996 JUL 30 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha.  
> >Tacoma, Washington, has just gained the distinction of being the 
> >only municipality in the United States to tax Internet Access 
> >providers (IAPs) like telephone service providers. 
> >

Hawaii has been taxing this (and everything else incl. collected 
taxes, food & medical) for years :-( calling it a "general excise tax"

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