Although Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly Love, it's not extending that affection to its bloggers.
The city has been demanding money from bloggers who make any money from their blogs, requiring that they buy a business license. The $300 license is required regardless of how much your blog brings in, if anything at all. Two small bloggers were hit especially hard when the city demanded they buy licenses and pay taxes for the money their blogs made.
Just how money are we talking about here? Their profits amounted to a whopping $11 and $50 respectively.
Yes, you're reading that correctly. The bloggers had to pay over $300 for their $11 and $50 earnings. And while we can all probably agree on how ludicrous this is, this situation does raise important questions.
With more and more bloggers finding ways to monetize their blogs, will/should the government step in to make sure that they are taxed appropriately? Not to mention when/if blogs should be taxed at all or to what degree?
Questions like this need to be addressed sooner rather than later to ensure that situations like this don't continue to happen.
