If It’s New, We Can Kill It: TNGOP’s Presser On The iTax

By Kleinheider Posted on May 6, 2008 at 4:34 pm

The Tennessee Republican Party reignites the fight against the digital download tax in light of new developments:

“The Department of Revenue has been talking out of both sides of its mouth on this issue, and it needs to stop,” said Bill Hobbs, communications director for the TRP. “The Revenue Department told companies that state law required them to collect the tax starting January 1, but a comprehensive ruling issued March 12 by Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr explained in great legal detail that digital downloads are not subject to the tax.

“Now the Department is trying to impose the tax – which it has been collecting since January 1 – via the ‘technical corrections’ legislation that the Bredesen administration files annually at the end of each legislative session. Frankly, that’s a lousy way to enact new tax policy,” Hobbs said.

“It never ceases to amaze us the hoops that people will go through to try to impose new taxes,” Hobbs said.*

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