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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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As I just saw in my feedreader metaversed found a blog entry that Google could be testing virtual worlds and social plattform at university of Arizona.
.. I just needed a source to quote in my diploma thesis that I believe that the big players also try to enter the 3D world market. And so a [...]

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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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I just had to cite an artcile from reuters about banning second life online gambling:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/07/26/linden-lab-outlaws-second-life-gambling/
Is it really necessary to cite a non existing human being. Ok it is a pseudonym or a reuters employee but it is also not correct to cite his real name when the article is writen by its pseudonym…strange questions [...]

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 excellent article from Alan Rappeport at CFO.com
When Virtual Crises Turn Real
A run on the bank at the increasingly popular Second Life shows how an online “universe” needs regulation, too. But how to regulate it?
Inside the banking offices of Ginko Financial, an eerie crisis has developed. A collection of almost impossibly strapping men and buxom women, along [...]

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I just arrived at the more interersting chapers of my diploma thesis…
here are some more links for further research 
all world by category
http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml
vili lehdonvirta on virtual economics
http://www-old.hiit.fi/u/vlehdonv/
Game study group from Korea
http://gamestudy.org/eblog/
news on virtual taxation
http://www.d-log.info/?p=1758
QQ coin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QQ_coin
 
overview on virtual assets for sale on german ebay:
§  Onlinespiele (3380) o   Diablo 2 (559) o   Dark Age of Camelot (52) o   EVE Online (88) o   EverQuest2 (30) o   [...]

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The World Stock Exchange was build by an australian company and offers virtual companies to raise capital
watch it at: http://www.wselive.com/
Source and further explanation:
http://www.digitalmoneyworld.com/welcome-to-the-world-stock-exchange-virtual/

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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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