Hello Russell!

Wednesday December 18 1996 05:28, Russell Brooks wrote to John Piper:

 RB>>> Consider that the current Dealer price for an Austel USR 14400
 RB>>> sportster internal fax/modem is $Au53.20 + 19.8% tax, so $63.74 +
 JP>> Err, isn't the tax rate currently at 23%?

 > Not with modems.
 > It s all over the place because of software content.
 > I recon that the courier should be taxed the cheapest because the flash
 > code is software, but no, it is the dearest.

Hmmm, dunno about that one. Given that, a motherboard should have < 22%
sales tax because of the BIOS. Re: the USR, you could argue that because
the flash upgrades are free, they're worth $0, which won't affect the tax
rate ...


Regards,
Hamish

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