There's simply something about Florida and absurd network taxation. Apparently Florida's creative taxation efforts (which we discussed at length and provided exclusive documentation for last July), are in the news again. The state's previous efforts to tax companies making use of VoIP was so poorly worded, it could have been construed as a tax on any organization or person that operated a LAN. While those efforts obviously stalled, now the state is considering enforcing a 1985 provision that could raise taxes between nine and eighteen percent. The aged provision was intended to tax large utilities and companies providing their own communications services, but is again so broad, it may be used to tax any company operating a local area network.