CrazyFingers
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BBR left out a rather important bit of info in their headline:
Gov. Jim Doyle wants you to pay Wisconsin's 5% sales tax whenever you pay to download a song, book, movie or piece of art.
Notice the "pay to download" part? Changes the tone a bit, eh?
Still a retarded law though... |
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entropy1
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2 edits | Ooops. Posted wrong. Anyway...it's still silly whether it says "pay" or not.
Piece of what? Haha! I'm going...I'm going...
(Ugh...here goes the wild BBR behavior again. It's causing me to have problems posting. Please pardon me. Wish this crap would stop.) |
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said by CrazyFingers  :Gov. Jim Doyle wants you to pay Wisconsin's 5% sales tax whenever you pay to download a song, book, movie or piece of art.Notice the "pay to download" part? Changes the tone a bit, eh? We already have that in Texas, at least for iTunes.
Whenever I purchase a track from their Music Store,
they add my State's Sales Tax (8.25%) onto each
download. I haven't seen it anywhere else, though.
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kylephoto760
join:2002-02-08
Escondido, CA | We're charged sales tax here in California on iTunes. Then again, it's a bit different since Apple is a California based company. |
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claco
join:2002-09-29
Tallmadge, OH
| said by kylephoto760 :We're charged sales tax here in California on iTunes. Then again, it's a bit different since Apple is a California based company. And that's the BS part. You aren't buying anything. Maybe leasing the tune while you're a member, but probably not buying. If not iTunes, then one of the other services TOS/EULA says that when you quit you no longer have rights to play or keep the song.
Hell, at least call it a usage tag instead. OR what it really is: money grubbing government lackey who probably exempts himself from the tax tax.
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BIGHUSKER
join:2002-01-20
Minneapolis, MN
| said by claco :And that's the BS part. You aren't buying anything. Maybe leasing the tune while you're a member, but probably not buying. If not iTunes, then one of the other services TOS/EULA says that when you quit you no longer have rights to play or keep the song. I think you're confusing Napster with Itunes. Itunes lets you keep the music you download forever (although it has a bit of DRM restrictions). There is no subscription involved with Itunes. |
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wait a minute
@optonline.net | reply to CrazyFingers
What is the 5% sales tax on FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Case closed. |
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