Comment Taxing WoW! (Score 1) 441
First of all there is no real currency exchange value set in place. Every server has their own value for gold. On one server you can buy a world epic for 300 gold peices and on a differant server that same item might be 700g or 100g. We can clearly see the lack of value system when new servers are created. The value of one gold piece is much higher than the value of one gold peice 1-2 months in. Therefor taxing in-game sales/exchanges is rediculous, not to mention if it actually happens how long it would take to differentiate %tax between servers.
As for selling virtual items IRL, any sale income is taxed. However, the items we find in-game don't actually belong to us, as stated in the license agreement, they all belong to Blizzard. So selling these items over the web is actually a form of stealing, so taxes don't exactly apply (You wouldnt report money you stole from a bank). This idea was stated earlier, just wanted to revisit it.
Second Life is a differant story, they actually use a currency exchange, and you can actually recieve legal rights to what ever you make on SL.
In summary, I believe taxing in-game exchanges on WoW isn't possibly due to the lack values. Furthermore, if the gold/items/account dont belong to us in the first place, why are WE being taxed?