Post by rubl on Aug 28, 2016 18:01:01 GMT 7
"Top digital Eurocrat issues non-denial about hyperlink non-tax
Perhaps he’s a non-Eurocrat too?
Comment European Commission vice president Andrus Ansip has denied plans to impose “a tax on hyperlinks”, even though the EU can’t tax hyperlinks, and nobody has asked for URLs to be taxed. URLs, as you might suspect, would be very hard, if not impossible, to “tax” anyway.
The great Polish writer Stanisław Lem used to disguise satires of communist bureaucracy as sci-fi novels. Sometimes I wonder if the European Commission has gone one better, and satirisied itself as performance art. This is one of those times."
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/25/eurocrat_non_denies_non_tax_on_hyperlinks/
Perhaps he’s a non-Eurocrat too?
Comment European Commission vice president Andrus Ansip has denied plans to impose “a tax on hyperlinks”, even though the EU can’t tax hyperlinks, and nobody has asked for URLs to be taxed. URLs, as you might suspect, would be very hard, if not impossible, to “tax” anyway.
The great Polish writer Stanisław Lem used to disguise satires of communist bureaucracy as sci-fi novels. Sometimes I wonder if the European Commission has gone one better, and satirisied itself as performance art. This is one of those times."
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/25/eurocrat_non_denies_non_tax_on_hyperlinks/
