I'm glad I don't live there

[kierthos]

Philadelphia requires bloggers to pay $300 for a business license.

Okay, it's only if you're making any money off of your blog AND only if you reported that income on your taxes (like you're supposed to), but there doesn't seem to be any bottom limit that you have to be over before being required to buy a license. The article mentions someone who made $11 over the course of two years, getting a letter saying they needed to purchase a license.

Ri-goddamn-diculous

Comments

[cuddlycthulhu.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, the business license only applies if the work is being done in the city (for instance, when I worked for the County of Santa Cruz you had to have a business license if you were in the incorporated parts of the county, but not if you were in the sticks). I wonder how that would work in such a situation since the blog itself, where the money is being made, is not in Philadelphia.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

I think the idea is that since you're blogging in the city of Philadelphia, it doesn't matter where the servers actually are.

Of course, if Philadelphia was operating on any sort of common sense, they'd have a minimum income requirement for "internet businesses" before you had to pay that license. I mean, it's not like you're operating out of a storefront.