09.07.2008 20:22 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

California beware, iTunes tax law threat returns

 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. So what's this guy pushing for this time (other than more money for the government)? Turns out to be the same again, only this time split into two parts, presumably on the basis that if one set of rules is approved, it will set some kind of precedent to more easily force through this tax. (Not that we're lawyers, not that we're Californians, even, but we do know that's how bureaucrats like to force through that awful system

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