On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
Sounds reasonable to me. Since the sale of energy is usually measured in kilowatt-hours, how many kwh of energy is transmitted across the average optical fibre before it reaches the powereda mplifier in the destination switch/router?
Also, remember, it's _net_ energy delivered which matters... I'm sure the customer is delivering light back toward the ISP as well.
-Bill
From my reading of the article, it appears that they are attempting to tax at 12.5 percent, the ISPs entire service revenue because that revenue is derived from the delivery of light energy, thus making the "IP service" actually a "utility product". It looks like the tax department is arguing that what is currently being billed/taxed as a service is actually a product and such product should be subject to VAT. It would be akin to California adding 7.75% to my ISP bill for sales tax. Owen