Free Tax Project

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Status

• Work in progress

Please

• Please feel free to edit
• Please help to correct the grammar in this wiki page: thank you:)

To do

• Extract of conversation w Michael & Kevin

Concept

'Free' tax means libre tax and, at the same time, optionally gratis tax (c.f.: Wikipedia: Gratis versus Libre, The Free Software Definition and The Open Source Definition).

The Project as the Greatest Common Divisor

The Free Tax Project is defined as the Greatest Common Divisor among

• p2p movements
• Hackerspaces
• Pirate Parties
• Micronations
• "State hack" projects (first steps in this direction: Free State Project and Icelandic Modern Media Initiative)
• The United Persons
• (who else?).

Subprojects

The subprojects should be defined as the necessary and sufficient open system modules for the project.

At first, we should have

1. (Sustainable Creativity) an ethical basis for independent tax in the form of a firm conception of sustainable creativity
2. (Independent Infrastructure) infrastructure for secure communication independent of states
3. (Independent Money and Tax) the option to exchange bits and pay our tax on bits independent of states
4. (Pacification) the option to avoid double taxation of bits by states
5. (Participation) the infrastructure to spend our taxes by means of our participation,
6. (Customary Law) laws revealed by our customs of our communities on the internet, and
7. (Citizen Experience) to offer average users a kind of user experience as Apple provides, and to advanced users we need to keep this system open like Linux and formal like machine readable ontologies, for all above.

Independent Money and Tax

Tax on bits independent of states

• default rate > 0
• option out (i.e., e-cash)

The 0% tax rate does not mean gratis transaction: the costs of transaction and tax rates are not the same concepts.

Reference

• p2pfoundation.net/Category:Money and p2pfoundation.net/Category:Taxation
• Michael's delicious P2P-Money and P2P Tax links
• Smart Taxes Network (Michaels's favorite tax-project)
• qp's Zotero money and tax
• qp's delicious money and * tax links

Pacification

• default: no double taxation
• option out (i.e., pay taxes on bits to states as well)

Reference

• p2pfoundation.net/Category:Security
• Michael's delicious security / P2P-Warfare links
• qp's Zotero conditions / warfare/ 4th generation warfare and / invasion collections

Participation

Reference

• Michael's delicious participation, collective choice systems and P2P-Governance links
• qp's Zotero voting and nudges collections
• qp's delicious voting and governance links

Customary Law

Customary law does not mean that we should avoid prescriptive laws or constitutions: it just means that we should review and appreciate the experiences we acquired through our cooperation of different kinds on the internet.

Reference

• qp's Zotero non-territorial law collection

Citizen Experience

• Usable
  • User Experience @apple
• Open
• Formal
  • Wikipedia: Formal ontology
  • Basic Formal Ontology