This reminds of Chicago's recent "cloud tax" [0]. It places a tax on anything related to the cloud, include AWS or Netflix. Most of the premises don't make any sense, and it just seems like another revenue stream for the Chicago government.
> Each one takes an existing tax law and extends it to levy an extra 9 percent tax on certain types of online services. The first ruling presumably covers streaming media services like Netflix and Spotify, while the second would cover remote database or computing platforms like Amazon Web Services or Lexis Nexis. Under the new law, what passes as $100 of server time in Springfield would cost $109 if you're conducting it from an office in Chicago.
> Each one takes an existing tax law and extends it to levy an extra 9 percent tax on certain types of online services. The first ruling presumably covers streaming media services like Netflix and Spotify, while the second would cover remote database or computing platforms like Amazon Web Services or Lexis Nexis. Under the new law, what passes as $100 of server time in Springfield would cost $109 if you're conducting it from an office in Chicago.
[0] http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8876817/chicago-cloud-tax-o...