Look at all the taxable energy escaping!
I almost didn’t post this so as not to give governmental bodies in the US ‘ideas.’
Broadband providers accused of tax evasion
Bangalore: The Commercial Tax Department has served a notice on Airtel, owned by Bharti Televentures Ltd., seeking payment of Rs. 24.18 crore as tax, interest and penalty for the sale of `light energy’ to its customers for providing broadband through optical fibre cables (OFC).
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Mr. Chitaguppi said that OFC operates on light energy, which is artificially created by the OFC providers and sold to customers for the purpose of data transmission and information, on the OFC broadband line. Without such energy, data or information cannot be transmitted.“Whoever sells light energy is liable to pay VAT as it comes under the category of goods, and hence its sale constitutes taxable turnover attracting VAT at 12.5 per cent,” he said.
That would depend whether light is a wave or a particle.
Maybe the users could return the same amount of light.
RBG
I have copper to my house. So I guess they aren’t selling ME light, just using it like the water dept uses tubes to get water to my house… wait… tubes… sounds familiar
This is in the same idea as the tax, in the USA on ALL phone, and cellphone since about 1880…that recently was taken OFF, but THEN a new tax was added to replace it, so that nothing really happened.
The 1880’s tax, was for President Teddy, and to pay for the Invasion of Cuba…
#3 are you suggesting that Dubya has some sort of plan for Cuba?
You should all be supporting this here. It would reduce the outsourcing problem if you could tax call centers’ light energy.
This sounds like something that may require a simple change in contract… i.e.
yadda yadda provides light energy free of charge as a carrier signal. yadda yadda blah blah may periodically provide data transmissions within the carrier signal, which will be charged at the normal rate blah blah
Let’s tax it as plumbing…it IS a series of tubes…
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and HOW in the world did you get that???
A tax was was on Phones for over 100 years, was resinded, THEN kept on the books…Did you know that you can CLAIM that over tax?? Only for the last few years…But, you need to know WHICH form to fill out…
Blow out the butterflys, its abit dusty in there…Let some Light in…
At least you don’t need to pay for the 0s!