Its not really an issue, Runescape is based in cambridge, And I'm fairly sure that the rules are the least of the Inland Revenues concern, It has enough trouble dealing with benefits, benefit defraudment and tax returns, so much so it had to recruit Adam Heart Davis in for advertisments to encourage people to send them in! Even a conservative british govenment from maybe heil Thatchers book of leadership wouldnt try to make the Inland revenue try and keep track of another 2 million returns on items that have no value and arent owned by anyone. However I do find it highly amusing that anyone would even consider this for this kind of base, I mean, I expect that due to the total lack of enforcement ability for allot of the content of what taxing In game assets would include, especially one with such a single geared messed economy as runescape, would require massive effort on jagex to hire 24/7 database monitors and recording to track as a record then to get players to sign in to a tax return, for a game designed for a bit of fun 4 years ago! It would be impossible to implement, impossible to enforce, impossible to track and impossible to persuade the public as feasable, the return wouldnt cover the losses. In short, the IRS is full of people with less braincells than our characters left leg if they seriously think they could implement this. And another thing; Other than the fact runescape is safe, the other MMORPG's wouldnt tolerate it, blizzard is too powerful to succumb to it, Sony is japanese as it is, so everquests small remaining elite players (of which I am one) wouldn't tollerate it and would either leave or bocott it. everquest 2 would also provide a similar responce, if not a little slower. Of any rpg, there is no feasable way to get global cooperation to tax it. there are better things to spend the money on than such a ridiculos venture. so, thats my view anyway. :-w