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

[Steve Dobson]

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.

Steve D.