Domain Name TAX? OH Really?

[WebCat]

Seriously folks, has ANYONE on this board, who between all of us have probably bought HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of domain names, have you EVER been charged TAX????

Is this a Tucows Policy?? Where is the "TAX" money going?? If they call it "TAX" but then keep the money, isn't that called fraud?

I think someone need to call these guys at RackShack and have a serious chat about this!

Yes, it's still a good deal, but that's NOT the point! This COULD start a very dangerous and VERY costly precedant!

A Little Concerned,
WebCat

[WebCat]

Imagine THIS nightmare:

The US government says "Oh yes, these registrar's in the United States SHOULD have been charging TAX on every domain they sold. So we are making the TAX retro-active. Every domain owner must pay a 7% sales tax within 30 days or they will sieze the domain as an assett!"

And please don't tell me the government would never do such a thing! Grey-Out Davis and the moronic California State Legislature just TRIPLED the DMV registration fees in California! (just one reason why we are throwing the bum out!)

[GeorgeK]

Depends on where you live.

Supposedly, domain registrars serving European *consumers* (not businesses) should be charging VAT, too.

[Lats]

Australian registrars charge a GST on domains.

[aguss]

Yeap some European countries have VAT and Australian has GST.

[diederik]

Yep 19% VAT/TAX here :/

[aguss]

My GOD!

[diederik]

Originally posted by aguss
My GOD!

Yep... stupid Europe

[Manu]

vat on UK domains set @ 17.5%

also the tax it seems I think you're probably referring to is the special which rackshack are having on domains - they have to take 7% as its a state tax (Texas) nothing to do with opensrs

As I bought a few from wsmdomains.com, before I had an eNom account and no tax was on these, as they should be.