Add your suggestions! If you were the tax man in Florida, what would you use as the basis for taxing "substitute communications" from computer to computer?

Don't be too serious! A small inscribed prize will be the reward to the most ingenious idea from the two of you...

As this seems to be a home-user-centric tax, I'd stipulate that it should only apply to Windows-based machines.

Access to statistics should therefore be via a back door in the Windows OS installed via the Automatic Update system.

The ideal person to write this would be Jeffrey Lee Parson who in doing so could spend his in prison constructively.

At the current rate of entry, you're going to win the prize, too!

:-)

Suggestions for Wifi Taxing.

1.A WLAN tax should be based on the no. of PC connected to an Access Point. This could be implemented by making access points and routers send data to the local tax office (similar to NTP server retrieve thing except data being sent the other way).

2. The tax could be based on the use of the WLAN. If its a home based LAN or - then a v.low tax. If commercial- then it could be taxed depending on size of company. If community servce WLAN- e.g. in rural areas a tax should not be levied. They could enforce such a tax banding by setting up a fleet of vans with WLAN detectors (like the TV license ones) with postcode and tax account computers onboard- people not paying would be very easily found out).

An example could be 20% high rate for business (20% of ISP fees for the year). 5% for home, free for charities.

3. Tax could be based on amount of data transfered wirelessly. Data on this could easily be obtained from (most) wireless routers or an ISP (if connection is used mainly from a WAP point). Since ISP have to provide government agencies without us knowing that would be simply for the tax man to do.

4. Tax WLAN based on power usage of the WLAN. The basis would be that wireless frequencies have unknown effects on the human body, so incase in 50 yrs we find out they fry the brain it would be taxed on the power/range of the WLAN. This could be implemented by legislation forcing users to use a meter with their WLAN devices.

5. WLAN tax could be based on speed of the service a WLAN point provides. Upto 0.25mbit the service should be taxed- this allows for public service LANs to be set up allowing WLANs to expand the country. Over this speed taxes should be applied based on speed of service. The theory is that the higher the speed the richer the user and so the more they can afford to pay.

Are you sure you aren't taking this seriously??

:-)

What happened to the:

Small but obnoxious prize awaits the best suggestion for how to tax Wireless LANs

Is it a tux doll?

PS. Are more Tax ideas required?

I think it should be radiated RF power.
That way, when someone wants to regulate the power down for "health reasons", you would pay less tax.
If your AP is on 24/7 then you pay more, than if it's on for a couple of hours in the evening.
What about Bluetooth? Taxing Mobile phones is easy (already done in the RF spectrum license charges), but what about all those people walking around transmitting Bluetooth traffic? They need taxing too (but you'd need a taxman on every lamppost to detect them).

Ah! Excellent idea! A reason to put a Bluetooth Access Point on every lamp post - at the tax payer's expense, too!

That's fully in keeping with the spirit of the competition, and I hereby award you the small but noxious prize.

:-)

Write to guy@kewney.com to tell us where to send it!

I have emailed a couple of times, but still no prize.....
(tony.mudd at tissoft.co.uk)
     Thanks, Tony.

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