Jorge
April 8th, 2008, 04:10 PM
$8 billion dollar state budget deficit has made a legislator call for consumers to pay a sales tax when purchasing music and movies online.
Here in California - aka "The Left Coast" - we seem to have penchant for nutty and outlandish ideas. Sometimes we have good ones, medical marijuana and a ban on smoking in bars being but a few of the examples. We also are capable of bad ideas, and the recent proposal by Assemblyman Charles Calderon, D-City of Industry, to begin charging a sales tax on digital music purchases is just such a case.
Assembly Member Calderon introduced California Assembly Bill 1956 (“AB 1956”) on February 13, 2008, requiring the State Board of Equalization to draft a sales tax regulation that would include digital property in California’s definition of taxable tangible personal property.
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Here in California - aka "The Left Coast" - we seem to have penchant for nutty and outlandish ideas. Sometimes we have good ones, medical marijuana and a ban on smoking in bars being but a few of the examples. We also are capable of bad ideas, and the recent proposal by Assemblyman Charles Calderon, D-City of Industry, to begin charging a sales tax on digital music purchases is just such a case.
Assembly Member Calderon introduced California Assembly Bill 1956 (“AB 1956”) on February 13, 2008, requiring the State Board of Equalization to draft a sales tax regulation that would include digital property in California’s definition of taxable tangible personal property.
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