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Court Rejects Nebraska's Attempt to Tax Vonage: The latest attempt to level state taxes on VoIP service has failed after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down an appeal by the Nebraska Public Service Commission to compel Vonage users to pay...

[Federal] bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. Congress;  reduced sales tax revenue threatens budgets for schools and police, and say that, as a matter of fairness, online retailers should be forced to collect the same taxes that brick‐and‐mortar...

Wisconsin will collect sales taxes on Internet downloads of music, games, books, ring tones and other video entertainment - a decision that angers some who will find the 5% tax added to their credit-card bills after Oct. 1.

This addresses the costs and risks associated with "legacy data," and the steps to be taken to remediate legacy data.  Discovery rules now require transparency for sources of data that are not "reasonably accessible." Continued...