Re: Definition of Web Application (related to tax law....)

Hi Hendrik,
At 02:08 21-07-2014, Hendrik Visage wrote:
>  A tax law related question have been thrown in my direction, so
>excuse the cross posting as I believe both sides might be interested
>or affected by this defintion in the (not so?) long run.
>
>How would you describe and define a "web application"?
>Remember, it needs to be sufficiently "simple" for non-techie lawyers
>to understand, but not to simple to let the lawyers nor the tax man
>run circles around the techies or each other.
>
>Could you refer to an *authoritative* definition on the Internet?
>(personally Wikipedia rates for me on authority equal to Facebook and
>Huisgenoot... especially w.r.t. diets and medical advice, but let's
>get back to the technical question at hand)

You could work from a definition from one of the W3C 
documents.  Someone will have to explain it in a language which a 
lawyer can understand.

>My issues "concerns" here:  Where does the actual execution takes
>place? (It'll have taxation implications)
>  That definition above makes it a duality as the application is
>"delivered" to the local browser and executed on the browser, though
>the definition states that it still executes on the remote server.

It would be less difficult if there was an analysis to determine 
where the actually execution is taking place.  I understand the 
question being asked in the message.  There isn't a simple answer.

Regards,
-sm 


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