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California Lawmaker Proposes Music Download Tax

Posted by Zonk on from the ideas-from-up-north-moving-south dept.

modemac writes "Sacramento, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon wants to expand a 75-year-old sales tax on 'tangible personal property' to include music downloads from iTunes and other music-download sites. The tax would specifically apply to music downloads, but the estimate used in this article for revenue generated by 'Net downloading also "includes pornography downloads." The measure, AB 1956, will be considered on Monday, April 14th."

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  1. Re:Tangible Personal Property? by esocid · · Score: 5, Informative
    That is the point of the bill this guy is proposing. He wants to update it from tangible to include information.

    "The notion of taxing tangible, physical property is really an industrial-era construct when we made widgets and sold widgets," Calderon said Friday. "Now it's not about widgets, it's about information, and selling information and moving information."
    So to sum it up, he wants to tax information.
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