Producers curtailed from double-dipping; Governments continue.

**miker** · October 16th, 2005, 01:06 PM

With all the fuzzt over the latest iteration of the iPod that now also does video, it's brought back to light that many bodies double-dip despite curtailing the practice in the film industry for tax breaks (ie where it does not benefit the government or 'public purse').

Here's an interesting write up:
http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=5381

let's just recall that the Canadian government has been collecting a tax for quite some years on blank CDs and the like. And, last time we looked (which, admittedly, was probably more than a year ago), they'd amassed a not-inconsiderable fortune ? $CN 80 million or thereabouts ? and hadn't figured out a way to distribute it to copyright holders.

In Europe (which is the land of high taxes, let's not forget), the taxes on storage devices which hold copyright material (irrespective of whether they're iPods or DVD blanks) attract a tax of 2 ? 5%.

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