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The Taxing Life of a Peanut
Mar 15, 2000 -- The debate over taxing sales on the Net has been in the news for a long time. It's a complicated issue, one I didn't fully understand until I read Doug Brown's lead in the March 13th issue of Intr@ctive Week:
"It's hard to be a peanut. If you're a peanut and you bow to state governments for some sense of being, life as a humble legume will be schizophrenic. If you're a raw peanut, five states would require that sales taxes are paid upon your purchase. If you're roasted, 11 states charge a sales tax. Add some honey to that roasting, and now 21 states say you're taxable. Get drenched in caramel and mixed with caramel-coated popcorn and suddenly you're a snack and 31 states will call in the tax man. What's a peanut to do?"
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Mary A. Sicard is president of i-Genuity, the Click-Here Strategy and Services firm in Augusta, Georgia.
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