The slow demise of virtual tax havens

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11-30-2008 @ 1:59AM

Heraclea said...

I welcome the notion of taxation of profits made in game currency. It's only fair. There is, of course, no obvious and simple way to maintain game activities and game gains as a going concern while requiring players to liquidate some of their game profits into real world currencies. Individual accounts lack the resources to do this efficiently.

So if game profits are to be taxed, there is only one possible outcome: real world taxes will have to be payable in game gold. From a gamer's perspective, the advantages of such an approach seems obvious.

12-03-2008 @ 7:48AM

Malixu said...

I agree absolutely. Blizzard should take a suitable sum off all profits I earn in WoW (while increasing the amount of money that vendors pay, and mobs drop by the same), and automatically deposit it in a government account at the end of the financial year.

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