Start a Rental Site before 2014

If you are thinking of starting a rental site or any site for that matter, you might want to think about starting it now. The senate just approved 7 more years of tax free internet access and email. The bill would prohibit state and local governments from taxing any service that enables users to connect to the Internet and some related services through 2014.

More at news.com:

The Senate’s bill was modified before the vote to include a section that says states can’t tax “home page electronic mail and instant messaging (including voice–and video–capable electronic mail and instant messaging), video clips, and personal electronic storage capacity, that are provided independently or not packaged with Internet access.”

Wyden, who first proposed the Internet tax ban in 1998, said the additional language resolves his “immediate concerns” but that he remains “concerned about the vast range of current and future services that are still exposed to the potential for taxation under this legislation.”