California threatened by ‘iTunes tax’

Posted by Jonny on July 9th, 2008 under News

Wake-up, California - your iTunes prices are under attack (again).
That’s right - assemblyman Charles Calderon is back with another attempt to levy a tax on digital downloads, just two months after Californian voter anger saw his last attempt to do the same thing chucked out with a vengeance. In April, the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee on a bipartisan vote rejected a legislative proposal to extend California’s sales and use tax to digital property, claims 9to5Mac.