Sweden first to put taxes on MMOs

Every legal income is tax based today. It doesn’t matter where you get your pay, you still need to pay tax or VAT. Even if you make you money by selling items and gold in World of Warcraft or selling items in Second Life. Especially if you live in Sweden…
clipped from wowteacher.wordpress.com
Sweden might be the first country to put taxes on income from online games, such as World of Warcraft and Second Life, Swedish newspaper Metro reports (It is a bit laughable to even compare WoW with Second Life, but sure, the money market these two games generate, is growing bigger each day). You can earn quite big money in both Second Life and WoW, something that the Swedish Revenue Department has realized.
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April 20, 2008 / 10:19 am
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