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 Member 940 Level 19.45 Mar 2006 |
[News] the IRS is after your EPICs!
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162654...=lastword;link
http://news.com.com/2100-1043_3-6140...-0-5&subj=news Basically anything valuable you earn in virtual worlds such as phat epix in WoW may be taxable in the future. What do you think? Just another reason to practice tax evasion? or is it the product of jealous non-raiders wanting to see raiders get screwed over? edit: just some thoughts, seeing as how Blizzard's Terms of Use effectively says everything belongs to Blizzard and that the only thing you are paying for is the right to use and play their game, wouldn't the taxes apply to blizzard only? This is of course assuming I've intepreted the ToS correctly and that Blizzard doesn't pass the taxes onto the rest of us, even so how will they distribute the taxes? only to raiders or those who have epics? or evenly across all players?
Last edited by Yggdrasil : Dec 4, 2006 at 10:57 PM.
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Member 12 Level 35.63 Feb 2006 |
I didn't read these particular articles, but this has more to do with Second Life than anything else. It wouldn't apply to WoW since selling things offline is against their ToS. Second Life, on the other hand, has turned into quite a lucrative industry, especially when you consider that it is completely taxless.
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Member 72 Level 31.48 Mar 2006 |
Why did you bump a topic that was bumped that hadn't been touched in 3 months?
 Also, I don't have epics anymore so I think I'm safe. "I'm in here for grand larceny" "I'm in cause I KEEL PEEPLES" "I'm in the joint cause I didn't pay my EPIX TAX" "Wow, youse wants a smoke?"  
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Member 1399 Level 24.79 Mar 2006 |
Lolz, government is teh n00bz and will get h4xx0rD!
Seriously though: if they start taxing "virtual" assets, then these assets would fall under regular U.S. law. What does this mean? It means that if someone stole your "epic" that was taxed under a new U.S. law, the feds would have to assign an FBI agent to your case to try to get the epic back. Then, what about eminent domain? One private entity could simply take over your land/buildings in Second Life by claiming eminent domain. If the government sticks their head into this sort of thing they are going to end up getting pWned.
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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