New York to tax DLC

[kookiegod]

Horse armor will soon set you back even more.

Gov. David Paterson (D) has proposed a budget for the state of New York which would tax downloadable content. The $121 billion dollar budget includes layoffs, service cutbacks, and new taxes. In regards to DLC the budget document reads:

Close Digital Property Taxation Loophole. Imposes state and local sales tax on purchases of prewritten software, digital audio, audio-visual and text files, digital photographs, games, and other electronically delivered entertainment services to achieve tax parity. For example, with the passage of this bill, a book, song, album, or movie would be subject to sales tax no matter if it was bought at a brick and mortar store or downloaded online.

[source gamepolitics.com]

[diethx]

That's crap.

[Tolwynn]

I'm sure that will encourage all sorts of people to opt to pay for legally downloaded digital content, thereby fattening the state's coffers.

[Tsa`ah]

He has also proposed a tax on soft drinks containing sugar/corn syrup ... possibly junk food in general.

[kookiegod]

It has only been a matter of time.

Congress has been exploring taxing online games for some time for the currency transactions that happen in GS, Warcraft, Second Life <shudder>, etc.

He's breaking new ground here. What is next, a tax on online poker winnings right at the source rather than you waiting to report it?

As the online frontier continues, I expect this will just become commonplace, just like you pay sales tax whereever you shop.

Paul

[Sean of the Thread]

Paterson is a dipshit.

I'm moving to NY in a couple weeks... will I be taxed for downloading this?

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/12/15/alg_snl_paterson.jpg

[Stanley Burrell]

He has also proposed a tax on soft drinks containing sugar/corn syrup ... possibly junk food in general.

I agree with taxing the fuck out of notoriously shitty foods that make people die, even if I don't like most people.

I wonder what the actual financial burden is for some sort of lump sum of data transfers, in an updated ISP chop-shop, for the average Internet-consuming boy or girl.

We could just stop paying taxes.

Edited to Add: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew

[Keller]

Yet another reason I am glad I chose DC over NYC.

Same pay, less bullshit.

[Clove]

Yet another reason I am glad I chose DC over NYC.

Same pay, less bullshit.Yeah they're just dying to become a base for internet commerce.

[Renian]

Title should be: New York to tax the fuck out of shit.

Seriously. He's adding taxes/cuts to EVERYTHING, including:

Clothing under $115
18% tax to sugary drinks
More cigarette taxes
School funding cuts
Health care cuts
Most services
Having sex

Given the huge list that I saw in the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY newspaper), the last one might actually not be a joke.

[Stanley Burrell]

I like how everyone assumed NYC.

[Renian]

I like how everyone assumed NYC.

They did?

[diethx]

Who assumed NYC? He stated in the second sentence, NY STATE.

[Stretch]

Curious - do they have it broken out anywhere how much of the budget shortfall was accomplished by spending cuts vs. tax increases?

[Stanley Burrell]

They did?

Besides you, I'm thinking ... yeah. I think I mentioned it because you quickly made a reference to Rochester; which, as you can tell, is suffering from severe tax burdens. Half of Bloomberg's brain can do a better job at making sure outside retardedness doesn't work its way into the City.

I think they should tax all non-NYC areas for being leeching fucks. Especially the Snow Belt fuck areas. Fuck you Snow Belt motherfuckers and your not gray snow.

[crb]

New York has been fucking with ecommerce taxes for awhile too, to the point where many merchants refuse to do business in the state.

That state is fucked up. I would consider moving to upstate new york because it is pretty in the mountainy areas, but fuck that. Going to low tax Tennessee.

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/05/merchants-ban-affiliates-based-on-new-york-tax.html

So, Joe the Blogger lives in Buffalo and sets up a blog about fishing. He joins Amazon.com's affiliate program (essentially an advertising relationship) to advertise Amazon's fishing book selection on his website in exchange for commission if one of his visitors buys a product. New York State thus considers that transaction to be taking place within New York and they want to tax it.

If I were a state I would pass a law granting immunity from extradiction for any ecommerce company operating in that state who goes afoul of New Yorks stupid-tax. That should give the people in Albany a good education on interstate competition when the immunity state gets all the businesses and jobs to move there.

Since this is essentially an advertising relationship, this would be similar to passing a law saying if Enzyte Male Enhancement advertises during a home game of the Yankees and gets a sale to a customer in Texas because of it, they would owe New York State sales tax.