Fool Me Once…

By Kleinheider Posted on April 25, 2008 at 6:23 pm

One of the interesting things that came out of yesterday’s iTunes tax revelation was that it was also revealed to a wider audience that the Department of Revenue apparently shares drafts of the “technical corrections bill” with a few good tax attorneys before sending it on to the legislature.

Bill Hobbs, for one, is not depending on one of those lawyers springing a leak again next year like it did this year:

A simple open-records request for copies of the draft should suffice next year to short-circuit the Revenue Department’s plan to craft new tax policy under the watchful eye of only a few hand-picked tax attorneys.

Tax policy proposals should be crafted in out in the open, where the public - who, after all, pay the taxes - can see what is happening.

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Tags: Apple, Bill Hobbs, Digital Media Tax, IPOD, Itunes, Technical Corrections Bill, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, Waller Law  

The Government Wants To Tax Your IPOD?

By Kleinheider Posted on April 24, 2008 at 9:46 am

Bill Hobbs warns us that the state may be set to start taxing activities most of us take for granted:

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s Department of Revenue is planning to tax your iTunes downloads, and all other digital media you purchase online and download including music videos, movies, news and entertainment programs, music, ringtones and electronic books. Under current law digitally delivered goods are not taxable unless delivered in a tangible form - if you buy software online and receive it digitally, there’s no sales tax, but if you also request and receive a copy of the software on a disk, there is.

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Tags: Bill Hobbs, Chicken Little, Digital Media Tax, taxes, The Sky Is Falling