My Darling B is trying to work out how much we should pay in sales tax for all the purchases we make on the internet. According to what she found in the tax code, we do not have to pay sales tax for the subscription to the ISP that hosts this blog because we are purchasing a service instead of an intangible product. Weirdly, we do have to pay tax for the songs I buy from Amazon – not CDs, not music downloads, just the ninety-nine cent fee they charge to let me listen to a song. No tangible product is ever handed over. They just provide me with the ability to listen to music on-line, sort of like purchasing a service. Seems like apples and apples to me.