{"id":7509,"date":"2008-12-17T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T16:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/get_ready_for_the_itax.html"},"modified":"2008-12-17T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T16:40:01","slug":"get-ready-for-the-itax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/get-ready-for-the-itax.html","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for the iTax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy with your iTunes songs and movies? If you are, you better download all the music and other content you can before the proposed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/innovation\/2008\/12\/17\/new-yorks-proposed-itunes-tax\/\">iTunes tax<\/a>&#8221; begins in New York. It seems that Governor David Paterson feels it isn&#8217;t depressing enough being surrounded by tens of thousands of out of work financial executives and once high flying hedge fund titans&#8230; He wants to make sure the same misery you deal with in public &#8211; when perhaps you run into ex-Madoff fund investors, follows you back home into your apartment.<\/p>\n<p>So when you click to confirm that download &#8211; regardless of the service, you will likely soon be hit with a new tax. <\/p>\n<p>Tell me once again, why do people choose to live in New York?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the only good news is the tax is only 4% a thankfully, the tax on purchasing CDs will remain the same.<\/p>\n<p> Personally, I just hope they don&#8217;t find a way to add fees to Pandora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy with your iTunes songs and movies? If you are, you better download all the music and other content you can before the proposed &#8220;iTunes tax&#8221; begins in New York. It seems that Governor David Paterson feels it isn&#8217;t depressing enough being surrounded by tens of thousands of out of work financial executives and once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,172,196,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}