U.S.: In Philly, running a blog that makes no money will cost you $300
- The real kick in the pants is that I don’t even have a full-time job, so for the city to tell me to pony up $300 for a business privilege license, pay wage tax, business privilege tax, net profits tax on a handful of money is outrageous.
- Marilyn Bess • Regarding the letter she got from the city of Philadelphia, informing her that she had to pay for a business privilege license for her blog, which has only made $50 over a three-year period, largely off of eHow articles. Also, she’s on a WordPress.com blog, which does not allow advertising unless you hit a certain traffic threshold. There are free-speech ramifications here, and it sounds like a shakedown to us. A bureaucrat needs to be taken out back and shot. Possibly two or three. source