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Schafft das Internet neue Probleme für die Theorie und Praxis der Besteuerung?
Theoretische Hintergründe, praktische Probleme
und erste steuerpolitische Lösungsansätze
   
Diplomarbeit
für die Prüfung Diplom-Volkswirt
eingereicht beim Prüfungsausschuss für Diplom-Volkswirte
der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der
Universität Heidelberg
2007
  
von
Michael Altendorf  

Eidesstattliche Erklärung

„Hiermit versichere ich, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit selbstständig und ohne unerlaubte fremde Hilfe verfasst habe, und dass [...]

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Dan Miller from Joint Economic Committee talked on Metanomics on Monday about taxing virtual worlds.
reuters stated that there were some hints, that JEC ist not introducing new taxes but IRS could see Virtual trades at some kind of barter exchange
for further details watch the conversation at slcn.tv
or read it at metaversed
http://metaversed.com/
or Reuters
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/10/08/congress-to-second-life-no-new-taxes/
For Germany the solution [...]

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As you can see on the image: The audience is growing with every event.

You can also watch the meetings at http://slcn.tv/

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Here is a fany overview on the history of virtual worlds.
It is very detailed!
http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/mudtimeline.shtml

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Metaversed talks about the the fancy new MyVirtualHome website.
This page is a plattform for home product manufactures who can include their product in  a CAD like 3d Mashup…
My Virtual Home:
 http://mvh.com.au/portal/
Metaversed article on this new things:
http://metaversed.com/14-sep-2007/home-design-virtual-space-web-2-mashup

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Gartner on virtual world security: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39288496,00.htm
–> good idea for a successfull next generation start up: a security service for virtual world, that ensure that the avatar in the game really is the business partner you wanna talk to e.g. via E-Mail certificates or keys or verisign… i am not a technical expert what is really [...]

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Some information from my research on my diploma topic…
There is a more or less new paper from The Risk Management Group - TRMG, (also works for the British government on this) which is about the ancient Hawala money trade system and compares it to new online currencies like the Second Life Linden Dollars.
Hawala is like the predecesor of [...]

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the last weeks hype around the photosynth technology and 3D worlds continues…
from Techncrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/14/the-3d-realvirtual-world-hybrid-how-far-away/ 
And the right question is:
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away?
How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own? Given the state of a number of technologies, not [...]

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You can meet & discuss at virtual Heiligendamm (Burg Hohenzollern) at:
oeconomica 67,41,31 (SL address)
…But I think you get a better experience at the real location, respectively 5km away behind the new €12Mio fence. Perhaps they could maintain the fence afterwards as anti capitalistic bulwark.

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from: http://notizen.typepad.com/aus_der_provinz/2007/05/was_wirklich_hi.html
original announcement on: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/25/business/compute.php (High-end servers point to new era in computing)
markusbreuer, May 18, 2007 05:39:27 GMT
Vor rund zwei Wochen überraschte IBM die Technologiewelt mit der Ankündigung, Grossrechner-Hardware speziell für die Simulation virtueller 3D-Welten zu entwickeln und zu vermarkten. Viele Marktbeobachter hat das verwirrt und irritiert: Mainframes für virtuelle Welten? Spezialhardware, wie der Cell-Prozessor, der [...]

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