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Berserker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 08:52 PM
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Doyle proposes sales tax on Internet downloads
Edited on Tue Mar-08-05 08:53 PM by Berserker
Madison - Gov. Jim Doyle wants you to pay Wisconsin's 5% sales tax whenever you pay to download a song, book, movie or piece of art.

A little-noticed provision of the Democratic governor's proposed state budget would extend the sales tax to those Internet transactions, officials said Monday. There would be no Internet sales tax police, however, because compliance would be on the honor system.

It's a matter of equity, said state Revenue Secretary Mike Morgan, defending Doyle's goal of having consumers voluntarily pay the sales tax on "intangible" items they buy and download from the Internet. Buyers would have to pay the 5% sales tax if they purchased those items at any Wisconsin store.

One Internet scholar said Wisconsin might be the first state to tax those downloads, which are exploding.
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Tux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 08:55 PM
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1. Hurt biz
Most people I know order online so they can avoid sales tax and not have to make a trip to a store. This may hurt sales of online stores especially if it gets into other states.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 08:58 PM
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2. I think it's a dumb idea, personally.
Not that parity between online stores and brick-and-mortar is a bad thing -- but there's no way to implement it decently, and it's going to piss off a lot of people. The Republicans have already framed this in an unpalatable way.

I blogged about this today...

http://www.wisconsinite.net/dairyconspiracyarchives/000575.html
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Berserker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 09:05 PM
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4. Some very good points in your blog
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 09:20 PM
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7. Thanks, Berserker. n/t
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 09:04 PM
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3. Feingold for Governor
and to think, I donated to the Wisconsin Party Victory Fund yesterday.

Sigh.

And then there's the Attorney General, whose real name I can no longer remember. All I can think of is "Lottsalager".

Oh well, the worst Dem is still better than having another Republican Governor.

Thanks Doyle.
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 09:05 PM
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5. WRONG ANSWER GOVERNOR! He's been doing excellent...
till now. I am against regulating the Internet. If it's done just once, it will open the door to further regulation, such as controlling the "content", such as DU! I don't want the government taking away our last portal of freedom. Governor Doyle is a good man and worthy to be a Governor, has this one wrong however.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 09:19 PM
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6. Hm...I wonder if we'd be expected to pay sales tax on DU donations.
On one hand -- no, it's a donation.
But, on the other hand -- donors get access to content that non-donors don't, so it's kind of a purchase.

This is all too convoluted.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 09:43 PM
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8. STUPID! Politically STUPID. Policy is stupid, also.
Edited on Tue Mar-08-05 09:45 PM by w4rma
If this ever happens it had better not be a Democrat that gets the ball rolling on a new regressive tax.
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