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Microsoft Exec: Consumers Need to Pay More Taxes

7 March 2010

What if the head of Coca-Cola suggested a tax on sugary sodas to combat increasing instances of obesity? Or if the big three automakers heralded an increase in the gas tax as a way of repairing our highways? It would leave a lot of us scratching our heads.
That’s why many IT folks were left [...]

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Holy Zappos! New York is Collecting Sales Tax on Online Sales.

15 June 2008

Many online retailers received a shock last month when they received official notice from the State of New York that they must register and begin collecting sales tax.
Until this month, companies that didn’t have a store or “physical presence” in New York were not required to collect the sales tax. This idea of taxation [...]

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Fat? TV Addict? Should You Be Taxed on Your Lifestyle?

7 June 2008

This week, I happened to notice a series of ads running in my local paper (The Philadelphia Inquirer) for Derrie-Air airlines. There were two features that distinguished Derrie-Air from, say, USAirways and United. One was the method of determining fare:
The magic comes from our one of a kind “Sliding Scale”—the more you weigh, [...]

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