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MacIver Institute on September 30, 2009
by Brian Fraley

Consider this a public service announcement from your friends at the MacIver Institute who believe residents of Wisconsin are over taxed.

When you are done reading this, you will want to hit Amazon.com for a nice read or perhaps some other site to commence with the music downloads. You see, you need to get your digital purchases in motion before the new tax kicks in tomorrow.

eBooks? Yep, a new tax starts tomorrow.

Online music downloads? Yep, a new tax starts tomorrow.

Even ring tones? Yes, Wisconsin imposes a tax on them, too, starting tomorrow.

Sadly, Wisconsin is now even resorting to taxing purchased digital clip art, starting tomorrow.

Although it is imposed by less than half the states, as of tomorrow, Wisconsin will apply its sales and use taxes to sales of digital goods.

Your government’s most recent gift to you: the iPod Tax. Or should we call it the Kindle Tax? Better to call it what it really is: “Wisconsin’s We Found Yet Another Way to Take More of What You Have During the Worst Economy in Decades Because We Didn’t Want to Cut Spending-Tax”

This doesn’t just inconvenience teens’ and young adults’ recreation. Attention any enterprising graphic artists, photographers and printers: the vast amount online media you purchase will be taxed in Wisconsin–beginning tomorrow.

For those who want more details on this tax (which is expected to bring in between six and 11 million dollars a year, for now), the Wisconsin Department of Revenue has issued Publication 240: Digital Goods - How Do Wisconsin Sales and Use Taxes Apply to Sales and Purchases of Digital Goods? This awesomely-bureaucratic titled publication is available for viewing and downloading here.

No worries though. This publication is free, so there won’t be any tax on it today…or tomorrow.

How comforting.

From http://maciverinstitute.com/2009/09/new-digital-download-tax-starts-tomorrow.html

Thank you Governor Doyle!