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Illinois Considers Taxing Custom Software

Posted by timothy on from the starring-nobuko-miyamoto dept.

Foobar_Zen writes "Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is proposing to tax custom software; he is hoping to generate $64 million. You can read the story at burrwolff.com. I am wondering if there any other states that currently tax for custom software? How is this going to affect Illinois? What does this do to independent application and software developers?" And what about software that adds value but itself is available without charge?

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  1. Yeah, right... free software... haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good April fools joke slashdot! Free Software indeed. There is no such thing...every store I've walked into sells stuff for money. I don't see anything free. Next, you're going to tell me that there are people distributing the source to their software openly! LOL.

  2. Welcome India by spooje · · Score: 2, Troll

    I just wonder how big the check from the Indian government was. There's no better way to kill any possible IT revival in this country than to tax it to death. Way to go Illinois!

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  3. Another great idea from Rod Blowjobovich by bobcat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yay! Another reason to leave this lousy state.

    Rod simply wants to increase the rate at which Illinois is depopulating.

    I'll be glad to help out.

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