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| [Philly] Tax On Bloggers This piece of news is unbelievable! Our Nutty mayor wants to impose a $300 tax on bloggers.
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Tax on Phila. bloggers?
By Robert Moran
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Philadelphia was once again the subject of head-scratching and ridicule on Monday, this time with the "blog tax" controversy.
On BuzzFeed, a popular website for stories, photos, and video competing to go viral, "Philadelphia Blogger's License: $300" was in the running, in between videos of a bored cat having a birthday party and Lady Gaga dancing at a Kiss concert.
New York magazine's website weighed in, as did the Washington Post's. The New York Daily News had a story about "Cash-strapped Philly" resorting to a blog "tax."
So does Philadelphia have a blog tax?
The city says no.
It has a business-privilege license that is required of any business operating in the city. The license costs $50 a year or $300 for a lifetime license.
Well, some bloggers who barely make a few dollars from Web ads were informed recently that they had to obtain a license. Not because they were bloggers, the city says. But because they made money.
Something about small-time bloggers getting hit up for money by the government got a lot of blog writers and readers fired up.
The story broke 8/18/10 at »citypaper.net/articles/2010/08/1···adelphia
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