[Sussex] This is appalling... Dutch Pass iPod Tax

[Stephen Williams]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:20 +0100, Steve Dobson wrote:
> Steve, Paul
> 
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:13 +0100, Stephen Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 14:43 +0100, Paul Turner wrote:
> > > Just read this on slashdot:
> > > 
> > > An anonymous reader writes /"The Register is reporting that in a few 
> > > short months a proposal to tax all MP3 players in the Netherlands will 
> > > become law
> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/27/netherlands_ipod_tax/
> > > 
> > 
> > Unbelievably stupid.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > How much would it cost to get an off-peak return
> > easyJet flight from Amsterdam to somewhere out the back of beyond, cost
> > £5 most, and buy your iPod/MP3 Player in the duty free shops in the
> > terminal, then fly straight back again?
> > 
> > Or get your british mate to buy a load in the UK, drive a hire .com over
> > to clogland and swap for a van load of booze.
> 
> Why go that far?  As Netherlands is not that big a country it couldn't
> cost the Dunch that much to just jump in his/her car and drive over the
> border; buy the iPod over then and then drive home.

I rather suspect that the Dutch won't be alone in this, and rather
assumed (unfairly perhaps) that the Germans and Belgians would follow
suit.

> 
> Steve D.
> 
> 
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