Consideration of "download tax" began due to lack of tax revenue

When purchasing content such as music and video at iTunes store, it seems that 8% of "download tax" may be imposed.

This is due to the shortage of tax revenue, and there are many members to agree.

Details are as below.
Plan would tax music downloads - San Jose Mercury News

According to this article, in California state in the United States, it seems that you are considering imposing "download tax" on users such as iTunes store selling online music content due to lack of tax revenue.

Also, apart from the method of taxing as a "download tax", there is also a method of revising the law on sales taxes applied when purchasing tangible objects and taxing intangible items such as digital content purchased online It is said that it is proposed.

By the way, if "download tax" is actually introduced, the tax rate of 8.25 ~ 8.75% is scheduled to be set, and the iTunes store which music is sold at 99 cents a day (about 101 yen) has 1 song It will be around 1.07 to 1.08 dollars (about 110 yen) per hour.

In addition, as opposed to this measure, there seems to be some opinion that copyright infringement will go wrong when taxing download sales.