ss to business transactions will out perform business-to-consumer transactions by a stunning thirteen times. As a result, businesses are depending on each other more and more when conducting transactions over the Internet. This figure is very important for tax authorities to watch out for, considering the types of products and services being transacted over the Internet.The graph following “US E-commerce 1998-2003”, is entitled “Online Language Populations (March, 2001)”. This pie graph illustrates how the Internet is composed and used by many different language populations. The graph clearly shows that English is the dominating form of language portrayed over the Internet, composing of about fifty percent. This a very interesting figure considering that out of the entire world, English seems to be by far the predominate language in use today. Chinese is the second largest online language population, which only consists of nine percent. This shows that users are conducting business through English based websites far more than any other language. Even though the Chinese language makes up a huge part of the Internet, the English language overwhelmingly dominates over the Chinese language by over four times. Some of the major countries in the world, when put together comprise of only about thirty five percent of their language use on the Internet. These countries include: Japan, Germany, Spain, Korea, France, Italy, Portugal, and Russia. This is a surprising statistic considering that these countries comprise of almost two-thirds of the world’s population and yet English seems to be the dominating choice of language. The last chart entitled “Global Internet Statistics (by language),” illustrates a variety of different languages and an array of Internet statistics pertaining to each of those languages. The statistics include such figures as: the number of Internet users, percentage of w...
