On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:54 AM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:30 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
If it's not written in to your contract, it's a breach of contract. Either way it's a deceitfully imposed surcharge, not a state tax. Virginia does not tax the sale of services like transit and colo. More, the only personal property tax I've heard of in Virginia is on motor vehicles.
also, houses and ( I think ) boats. (personal property tax)
and mobile homes, and aircraft... oh, and, surprisingly, Flight Simulators (a rate of $0.01 per $100 of assessed value). I guess that this means that if I buy a joystick from amazon for $19.99 I owe the country 0.002c...
I could imagine this is: "Hey, have our customers pay our realty/property taxes for us!" plan... or that perhaps they are 'leasing you ground space" and passing on the %-age of their total space's tax footprint to you.
not saying either of those sounds terrific though :)
Yup - this sounds like the "We will charge you a modem rental fee, even if you don't, you know, actually rent a modem..." (like https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/frontier-customer-bou...) Warren "Waitin' for the servicefinder.se spam" Kumari. -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf