Senator Dodd (D-CT) appears to have a rider attached to a bill that forces reporting of all transactions to the government. Ebay, google, mastercard, visa, etc. It can be quite scary the amounts of information that the government would get. Everything the poindexter system wanted.
The telecom tie in is that your transactions may fall victim to this law, and you would have to report all of them to the government, who buys minutes etc, probably not who they called though, but you may have to report the deduction of credits on a prepaid. You may want to get your legal people to look at this and see if it would affect you in any way if it passes. I havent yet had time to read it to see if it would actually require telecom reporting, but it appears to on its surface. Some have claimed that this this is the groundwork for a internet based tax, although I see far worse things than a mere tax if it passes. relevant URLs http://dodd.senate.gov http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/93xx/doc9366/Senate_Housing.pdf CBO report on its costs http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/GSEBill.pdf committee report http://rpc.senate.gov/public/_files/L62HR3221Houseamendments0618SN.pdf and yet even more The article that I got the tip from which gives a summary is at http://freedomworks.org/newsroom/press_template.php?press_id=2571 which gives their summary of what the changes would be and information about where its hidden (its a rider not the main point of the bill). -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
