Wisconsin Passes Digital Download Tax

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 21, 2009 @06:23AM from the harvesting-the-tubes dept.

McGruber writes with news that the State of Wisconsin has passed legislation to extend sales tax to digital downloads. The new law will go into effect on October 1st. Estimates suggest that the 5% tax on "downloads of music, games, books, ring tones and other video entertainment" will bring in $6.7 million annually. "[Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle] has been fighting for the change for years. He and other state officials say it is a matter of fairness: Internet vendors shouldn't have a tax-exempt advantage over Wisconsin's brick-and-mortar retail stores." Similar legislation has been proposed in North Carolina, and we've previously discussed New York's foray into taxing sales made online in addition to downloaded purchases.

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Is there ANYTHING you won't complain about? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-21 06:35 · Score: -1, Troll

Whine, whine whine.
If you don't like it and are in the minority so you can't change it, move.
they should be taxing faggots by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-21 06:39 · Score: -1, Troll

everytime they take it up their ass.

faggots are a drain on society. they get diseases and they fight like little sissies. we should allow them to be in the military though... as targets. live faggots running down the rifle range so real men can put bullets in them.
Re:That's it -we're fucked. by Anthony_Cargile · 2009-02-21 07:32 · Score: 0, Troll

require home routers to maintain logs
Link/care to elaborate on that?