In the UK, the people who look after their VAT has decided to investigate eBay automatically to make sure that the big eBay sellers are registered for VAT. In the UK, second hand sellers are required to only pay VAT on the difference in price between the purchase price and the sale price. According to The Register, they intend to make back far more than the cost of the software.

Over at Developer.COM there is an article on writing ‘thin’ clients that are run over the internet, but are not using something like citrix or Web Pages. Basically what happens is that forms or collections of forms or libraries are downloaded at runtime over the net (or from a local server) allowing changes to be made at any time. I think this is an amazing technology and is something I will have to look at later.

I have also been looking at forms designers recently to embed into my own code… I have found two pieces of software – the first is on Code Project and is available for free. The issue is that the technology it is written on is a bit out of date. The other form designer comes from Greatis but this costs real money.