Leave it to a politician to find any means possible to make more money from people. Tax Officials over in Sweeden has an idea to tax the sale of MMO characters. The concept of the tax breaks down as follows:
The Swedish Tax Agency hold that you have to pay tax for selling an avatar from a computer game. The agency has investigated the trading in avatars during a 14 month period and found the advertised sum of avatars for sale by Swedes to be 662 million SEK. But no one has ever declared any income for trading in avatars to the Tax Agency.
They even want to tax US sellers, i.e., if you sold a Warcraft character in the US to a Swedish gamer, you have to pay the tax. How they would even collect that is anyone’s guess.
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Wed, Jul 29, 2009
Gaming, Massive