On Wed, 16 May 2001, Steve Phillips wrote:
After bailing our Telecom account manager up about the latest excuse as to why Telecom are not willing to peer, it came back that the Tax Dept are claiming that the people peering at APE are committing tax fraud due to the traffic traveling across the APE link having a real dollar value associated with it.
* boggle *
Telecom claim that the Tax Dept have contacted everyone about this issue and that we should all be paying each other for the privilege of peering in order to recover the costs associated with traffic across APE. Then each of us should be paying GST on the traffic to/from each of our peers.
Can anyone out there verify this latest myth ? :-)
Stop me if I'm being too technical, but it's Bollocks. I never heard ANYTHING about this when repeatedly dealing with Telecom to set up IHUG's 100Mbit link to APE, even though we discussed at the time ditching the Netgate link because of it. I discussed an upgrade of Callplus' link to APE with multiple vendors recently, including Telecom, and never was _tax_ mentioned at ANY time, even though, once again, it called into question the ongoing viability of Callplus' connection to Netgate. Callplus/Attica have not been contacted by the tax dept about this. IHUG hadn't either, by the time I departed from it. This is the first time I've heard this particular argument being made. Sheesh. Back in the 80's and 90's, I used to dial up my friends modems directly to exchange information (FIDO and NNTP stuff, usually) - I guess I'll owe some back-taxes for not using pacnet, huh?
We are apparently going to get an answer to this latest problem within the next 90 min's, I wonder what the next excuse will be..
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