Congress to Revisit Virtual Goods Taxation [Slashdot]

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News.com has the word that congress is set to re-visit taxing virtual goods, a concept they shelved a while back in order to consider the matter more fully. That's given the Congress' Joint Economic Committee time to come to a decision about what exactly the value of virtual goods means for players and game-makers. An economist with the group told CNet to expect their report sometime next month. "What that report will say is unknown, as the committee has kept entirely quiet about its thoughts. However, it's clear that something will happen. 'Given growth rates of 10 to 15 percent a month, the question is when, not if, Congress and IRS start paying attention to these issues,' [senior economist Dan] Miller, who is a fan of virtual worlds and economies, told CNET News.com in December. 'So it is incumbent on us to set the terms and the debate so we have a shaped tax policy toward virtual worlds and virtual economies in a favorable way.'"Read more of this story (http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/23/2055244&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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[Raedon]

If I can't pay the IRS in virtual Copper, silver, and Gold it's a waste of time. You can't tax money that isn't openly traded on some real market.

[diskoboy]

And you wonder why congress has a lower approval rating than Bush...

I didn't even believe that was possible.