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<font face="sans-serif">Phillipe (and Milton)<br>
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Everyone agrees that there is a new situation and new forms of tax
regimes need to be worked out (while obviously means that, as you
say, old ones are difficult to work/ enforce) .... I did not see
anyone claim otherwise in the present discussion. However, the
newness of the situation and need for appropriate response should
not be used as an excuse to declare some part of our social
structure as out of bounds for taxes, polity and public systems.
This is the sole point of contention in this debate. This is what
Milton and Daniel seem to be trying to do. <br>
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Milton says 10,000 jurisdictions cannot work. He wants to keep
ignoring the fact that Michael, who initially raised the issue,
lee and I, have said that we should therefore work towards some
kind of global agreement to see that is most practical as well as
fair to all. Milton however does not come out with any alternative
system of taxation and legitimate regulation of Internet activity
while he keeps saying it is silly (BTW, Milton, you have said it
enough number of times now) that 10000 jurisdictions should apply.
So, he, and apparently some others here, want to simple use this
'new situation' opportunity to declare an important and growing
part of our social structure and systems simply out of bound for </font><font
face="sans-serif">taxes, polity and public systems. Now, Milton,
if this is not so, can you specially </font>spell out what new
arrangements do you propose that are fair and just to all (yes,
including social and economic justice), instead of keeping on
vaguely referring to new publics or whatever it is. You especially
owe us your exact response to and recommendation for this new
situation, including the appropriate tax and regulation regime,
since you have been accusing Paul of abstractness, and saying that
you will only engage if clear facts are referred to, and accusing
some others, including me, of ducking real issues . So maybe it is
your turn to de-abstract and mention the new governance regime that
you propose. <br>
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Parminder <br>
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On Wednesday 13 July 2011 06:41 PM, Philippe Blanchard wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I follow-up Daniel's analysis.
In his example, he clearly demonstrates that we are in a situation for which the classical rules based on physical territory cannot apply. Eventhough those rules proved useful, they were designed more than 200 years ago (Beaumarchais- 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799- worked on Intellectual property consideration and set the basis of main of our current IP laws).
We all know that those rules cannot longer apply as is and the question is then to review what is the scope that can embrace the fact we are moving, we buy "stuff " in one country to be used in another country... and when those "stuff" are intangibles, their materiality (or lack of) clearly conflicts with the classical, material rules we used to abide by.
I am afraid we cannot go further if we still try to cut&paste rules that were designed hundreds of years ago to the world we now live in. Internet governance and intangibles taxation require the creation (or the mobiilization) of a meta-structure, above the national levels... And for me, it needs to be a UN-type agency.
Philippe
On Jul 13, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
Interesting discussion indeed.
What is an application? What you pay for, when you buy software? Aren't you paying for the right to use the application? How are taxes collected on rights to use? Who is taxed -- the party that gives the right, or the party that receives the right?
Does the application have physical location? Does it reside on my iPad flash storage and if it does, can I take it from there and put it in another physical place? Or does it reside "somewhere" in the Internet cloud?
What if the application is web based, "resides" and "runs" somewhere, but I "use" it here?
Could you also explain to me who collects taxes when:
Apple in California sold me the application.
I purchased it while in Oslo (Norvay), then used it while staying at the Frankfurt (Germany) airport and continued to use it back home in Varna (Bulgaria).
Internet does not have 'place' and it also does not do anything with 'physical' objects. Both these things are the foundation of the current taxation system.
Daniel
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