{"id":1050,"date":"2007-05-26T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T18:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2007-05-26T01:22:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T18:22:37","slug":"email-internet-usage-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/email-internet-usage-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Is email, internet usage tax on the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> If you once scoffed at those e-mails warning of an e-mail tax, brace yourself: you may soon be paying a lot more to use the Internet. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The era of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Net+taxes+could+arrive+by+this+fall\/2100-1028_3-6186193.html\" title=\"Net taxes could arrive by this fall -- Wednesday, May 23, 2007\">tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections<\/a> could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful. State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to levy new monthly taxes on DSL and other Internet-service connections. One senator is even predicting taxes on e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Week+in+review+The+taxman+cometh+back\/2100-1083_3-6186567.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you once scoffed at those e-mails warning of an e-mail tax, brace yourself: you may soon be paying a lot more to use the Internet. The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful. State and local governments this week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}