Canada’s ‘iPod Tax’ One Step Closer to Reality: Adds $75 to Price of 30GB DAP
- July 23rd, 2007
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Poor Canada, no one cares about you, hockey or the fact that you very well might have to pay additional taxes every time you buy an iPod. It seems like the Copyright Board of Canada has green lighted the tax on DAPs and flash storage cards. (It can’t be any worse, ideologically at least, than the $1 Microsoft pays Universal per Zune sold.) If the tax actually goes into effect, the price of a 30GB iPod would shoot up some $75, coming out to around $460. O Canada indeed.
But hey, Canada, if the price hike—excuse me, “levy,”—goes through, at least you’ll still be able to walk into a doctor’s office without your checkbook and giant stacks of money.
New tax could raise price of iPods by $75 [Digital Home]
Johnal
2007-07-23 15:26:08
A healthcare system that works, or no taxes on DAPs and flash storage cards? Choose wisely Canada!
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Chuck
2007-07-23 16:50:00
(RANT) I love it when the goverment decides that a technology is evil and when given that technology the great un-washed masses will use that technology for evil and nothing but.
Whats even more alarming is a country full of sheep that lets this be done to them.
So if you are paying a tax on cassettes, (yuck) CD-R’s, flash Roms and and your DAP to pay for the music that you obviously stole or will steal, why not a tax on your hard drive where it is likely that more stolen music is located there?
If you are stealing music than you probably are stealing applications as well, so lets tax your computer, and double the tax on your hard drive to pay for the applications and the music.
Lets not forget the videos you have downloaded, lets tax your internet connection, double the tax on your PC and triple the tax on your had drive.
Wait till the government finds out that you loaded your flash card with music and on multiple occasions listened to that music, and then without paying tax again on that same flash drive, you erased the flash, stole more music only to fill the flash drive a second time with different music. You probably even listened to that music on a stolen application program.
Do you get a tax rebate if you are signed up with Rhapsody or Yahoo music? Or do you get to pay the stealing fine plus the rental charges.
What if you actually buy your music? What then?
Pin heads.
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Quinn
2007-07-23 17:00:57
Why either/or? This shouldn’t be a binary. But hey, at least with a levy/tax the Copyright Board is in fact saying that “piracy” is okay, because it ‘aint piracy if you are paying for it, right? RIGHT?!
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Katchoo
2007-07-23 18:11:57
I’m not sure if the Conservatives can quash this or not, but if they can, and they choose not to, then you can add another nail to Stephen Harper’s coffin. The Liberals will gladly add “killing the iPod tax” to their platform come election time.
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littlegreiger
2007-07-23 21:16:01
I’m not sure where you are getting your prices for iPods in Canada, but you’re getting ripped off. They normally sell for $300 CAD so a $75 tax would put it at $375+GST(6%) or about $397.50 CAD. That’s still $60 cheaper than the price you posted. Please check your prices before posting next time.
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Matt in Berlin
2007-07-24 07:33:10
Rarg! Eat my maple syrup covered beaver!
Agree with Katchoo…
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matt
2007-07-24 15:59:37
Um, nit sure where you get your info from but health care in Canada isn’t all that great… Thats why people with money travel to the United States for procedures instead of waiting months to see a doctor…
It’s too bad about the Ipod prices… we coulduse them while we wait for the doc.
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Johnal
2007-07-24 21:43:56
I tried to look online for some real stats and i kept finding references to Moore’s “Sicko” movie or whatever…fjlak;fj Did anyone even watch that? Anyway, this is the best I could do in the 2.5 minutes I’m willing to spend on this.
http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=1503
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