Keyed Off On Tennessee’s Digital Download Tax

By Kleinheider Posted on April 25, 2008 at 7:56 am

Both the City Paper and the Knoxville News Sentinel write up the TNGOP’s rallying cry to prevent a new digital download tax and the subsequent revelation that the tax is already being collected:

As for the confusion perhaps caused by the Tennessee Republican Party, spokesman Bill Hobbs said he doesn’t now “dispute” that iTunes sales are taxed.

Hobbs said he based his description on a memo from the law firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, which called the section of the technical corrections bill the “Digital Products/iPod tax.”

“It’s probably an unfortunate choice of a headline, but Waller Lansden called it that, and I just keyed off of what they wrote,” Hobbs said.

Click here for yesterday’s Post Politics report on the issue.

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Tags: Apple, Bill Hobbs, Digital Media, downloads, IPOD, Itunes, Reagan Farr, taxes, TCA, TDR, technical tax correction, Tennessee, Tennessee Republican Party, Waller Landsen

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3 Responses to “Keyed Off On Tennessee’s Digital Download Tax”

D writes
April 25th, 2008 8:53 am

Did you simply read the memo headline rather than research by looking into the a few more paragraphs? Look first, then shoot.
» So, they’re not Mac people The Donkey’s Mouth: Tennessee Democratic Party Blog writes
April 25th, 2008 10:09 am

[…] A.C. Kleinheider wrote yesterday about the iTunes tax and the TNGOP gaffe calling it a “new tax.” Kleinheder’s exhaustive investigation is what led to […]
amazed writes
April 25th, 2008 2:58 pm

As it turns out, the Bredesen administration begain taxing iTunes downloads on Jan. 1, 2008, but plenty of digitally-delivered products are still not currently taxed in Tennessee and the “technical corrections” bill contains a laundry list of things that are not currently taxed but may soon be, according to the analysis of the bill by the business tax law experts at Waller Lansden.

Details at http://www.tngop.org/wordpress/2008/04/update-april-25-2008/

Last year, the administration used the “technical corrections” legislation to levy a new tax on propane for your barbecue grill, raising $3 million in new revenue.

Keyed Off On Tennessee’s Digital Download Tax

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