iPod tax coming to Europe
The Netherlands’ government are planning to levy a tax on iPods and other mp3 devices. The bigger the hard drive on the device, the bigger the tax – if the legislation is enacted, the tax will be as much as €3.28 ($4.30) per gigabyte. The 60GB iPod Photo would rise in price from €469.00 to €665.00 – adding close to €200 to the price of the player. Lobby groups obviously see this as a victory and will expand their lobbying efforts around Europe.
