New EU Legislation For ALL Digital Sellers

[k_a_webb]

Please, everyone, read this and share it around. http://euvataction.org/2014/12/12/vat-a-mess-new-eu-tax-rules-set-to-close-small-businesses/ We need as many people to sign the petition as possible.

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Re: Tax laws

[ysabetwordsmith]

I am also profoundly disturbed by the increasing efforts to track people's location and activities. Not only are vendors required to identify where buyers are from, but also to store that information -- and despite the order to store it "securely" online information is never really secure and most people can't afford good security. So it's Christmas for hackers and thieves.

Re: Tax laws

[dialecticdreamer]

This whole thing /is/ affecting my choices for /what/ I want to be paid for.

Right now, I'm thinking "pay to access the posted file" rather than "pay to buy an ebook."

It's a /major/ issue for me because I only want to break the laws I /deliberately/ choose to, rather than breaking them due to ignorance. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of thousands of TIMES more words in legal code than I can read in a lifetime right now. I don't need to know the laws governing say, the shipping of goods by rail, BUT, I also can't realistically read the law for /any/ single subject without a massive amount of interpretation and additions.

It's frustrating to the point that hubby and I have created a country for our gaming universe whose entire legal code fits in to a tradeback-size book with thirty-two pages. Period. Everything from traffic laws to malpractice is included, because the /basic law/ is simple.

Re: Tax laws

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>This whole thing /is/ affecting my choices for /what/ I want to be paid for.

Right now, I'm thinking "pay to access the posted file" rather than "pay to buy an ebook."<<

I'm increasingly suspicious that people in power are trying to create a situation where it's impossible to follow the law, with the intent of entrapment. Sadly this indicates a lack of historic and psychological understanding. Because when you make breaking the law normal and necessary for survival, that destroys the value of following the law, which leads to the collapse of your civilization. I prefer rational to irrational problem-solving methods, but I'm entirely aware of how the safety valves work. 0_o

>> It's frustrating to the point that hubby and I have created a country for our gaming universe whose entire legal code fits in to a tradeback-size book with thirty-two pages. <<

:D In my main SF setting, there are colonies with all different laws. Galactic laws cover the basics like "don't murder" and "don't steal." Each colony is allowed to designate 10 local laws they can enforce on non-residents, and that list is posted so everyone sees it before coming to that colony. It solves a lot of problems, at least with humans.

With aliens, the results are more hit-or-miss. Nobody's really managed to convince the Branchians to restrict their penile fencing to their own territory. They reproduce by rape, so it's understandable, but it really bothers most humans.

Re: Tax laws

[dialecticdreamer]

This is why /cash/ is still a thing.

No matter how convenient my electronic bill-paying is, some of that "convenience" is NOT for /my sake/. It's for the sake of police looking for "suspicious transactions."

Do they mean any transaction above 10,000 US dollars (when our annual SALARY isn't that much?0 OR something out of the ordinary for our family, which would be any transaction greater than 1k? Those laws are DENSE-- I've gotten through forty or so pages of /some/ laws... and that's never ALL of the law I'm interested in!

There /has/ to be some place for individual liberty ESPECIALLY on the electronic commons.