If you’re a blogger in Philadelphia and your site brings in any revenue, the city wants $300 from you. Philadelphia has a number of local taxes on businesses and it apparently considers a blog that brings in any gross revenue a business. If you make a net profit (even so much as one blogger’s $11) you have to give the city a cut as well. The blogger of Circle of Fits, Sean Barry, tells Philadelphia City Paper:
“Personally, I don’t think Circle of Fits is a business,” says Barry. “It might be someday if I start selling coffee mugs, key chains or locks of my hair to my fans. I don’t think blogs should be taxed unless they are making an immense profit.”
