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Amazon Turns to Voters to Decide on Tax
Amazon has filed a petition for a referendum to allow voters in California to vote on whether they want to have the company pay sales tax in their state.This in response to a new law recently passed in the state...
Steve Jobs Takes Leave and Mobile Tax Filing (Video)
Stefanie Mosca in the TMC Newsroom details the news of the day including important happenings at Apple and Time Warner Cable. ...
What Would Reagan Say About Increased Taxes?
Left Coast Rebel points out the following video which is worth watching as it is the exact same debate which is taking place today. The only difference is Obama is being played by George H.W. Bush and the Tea Party...
Nortel Asks for Executive Bonuses
A shot of the Ottawa River in Canada. Click to enlarge.It is certainly a tough time for Nortel to be trying to get a court to approve senior level management bonuses as just south of Canada here in the US,...
House Passes 90% Bonus Tax
You may have heard the House of Representatives recently passed a punitive bonus tax bill for those working in companies which received TARP money. Specifically, The bill defines a new class of income, "TARP Bonus," that consists of any compensation...
Cuba Launches Nova OS Based on Linux
The goal of this post is not to make a political statement but rather a financial one. The law of unintended consequences seems to have a way of really stinging those of us in the tech space. For example, in...
Get Ready for the iTax
Happy with your iTunes songs and movies? If you are, you better download all the music and other content you can before the proposed "iTunes tax" begins in New York. It seems that Governor David Paterson feels it isn't depressing...
Amazon Fights back Against New York Tax
Amazon, feeling singled out by what New York state officials have dubbed the Amazon Tax has decided to sue the state. According to the New York Times, the state changed the law regarding who has to collect taxes and instead...
NY to Tax Amazon Purchases
There is just something so mind-boggling about our nation's tax collection system. I was reading this MSNBC article about how New York State is looking to and likely will tax Amazon.com purchases and it goes on about how New Yorkers...
Tax VoIP Illegally, Get a Raise
It is a sad day when a city government decides it needs to come after a specific technology -- one that has truly helped and empowered its constituents, in order to generate more revenue. The city of Los Angeles just...
E-mail Tax
Perhaps I an now spoiled by the open and free nature of the Internet but I am pretty annoyed that Yahoo and AOL are considering taxing e-mail by charging money to ensure messages are not marked as spam. Sure the...
Telecom Tax Refund
Companies such as Convergys, a very large contact center outsourcer and telecom billing company will receive a six million dollar refund due to the fact that a telecom tax of 3% has been ruled unlawful. A staggering $9 billion dollars...
