I can envisage a big future for a bit tax when information is more widely
used than today, when the internet traffic of a country or city or
corporation or group is a fair reflextion of the size of its economy. This
willl be when automation has finally penetrated every possible sector to
some extent or other -- by way of saying, its qualitative potential. Two
sectors with the greatest quantitative potential, I foresee, are 1.
genetically-linked disease; 2. substitution of automatic machine tools by
those using genetic methods in order to manufacture carbon-based materials
and goods of better specification that those used at present.
Keith
At 21:09 25/03/2013, you wrote:
Thanks for this. Appreciate all the news on other jurisdictions looking at
new ways to govern and tax in a digital economy.
arthur
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Subject: [Futurework] More on bit tax: Massachusetts
Just how this is to work is unclear and it's not exactly a bit tax.
http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/massachusetts-considering-a-tax-on-the-cloud
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http://www.networkcomputing.com/next-generation-data-center/servers/massachu
setts-tax-may-leak-into-the-clou/240151527
- Mike
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