In Philadelphia, Mayor Micheal Nutter intends to impose a Business Privilege Tax upon anybody that produces an income through means of advertising online. Exactly what this means is bloggers and free-lance authors will be slammed with a $300 ‘tax’ whether or not your website or blog has made any profit!

Philly has denied generating a tax specifically on bloggers, rather as explained previously what they are working on is drawing from the Business Privilege Tax and classifying blogs and websites as a “business” mainly because of advertising income (no matter how tiny the income might end up being).