maggie748

It's an interesting article to me, it got me to sign up so that I could reply. In reply to a point that has been made repeatedly, that RS is based in Britain and most of the people playing are American, it makes no difference. As a Canadian citizen and resident, if I make money in the US I pay US income tax on it. If you make enough money to tax then you pay income tax in that country. If you make the money in a tax haven, then you pay income tax when you bring it into the country. I can see the various Revenue agencies getting together to harmonize such things. If you sell anything for a profit, then you should (and must) pay taxes on that profit. Also, taxation is how we pay for the services that the governments provide; we pay civic taxes to support police, fire, schools. We pay federal/provincial/state taxes to support health care, higher education, infrastructure, the military. Unless you want to get into an extreme libertarian system where you get what you pay for and nothing else, then this is how we, as a society, determine what we will support and to what extent. Sure there are excesses and waste but that is to be expected and guarded against. IRS means Internal Revenue Service, not international.