11/28/2005, 10:20am, EST
Monday, November 28th
France to reduce iPod tax this week
The report says that in the case of the 4GB iPod nano, the French copyright levy adds nearly €52, or 16 percent of its €310 retail price and that proportionally, the copyright levy for music players with a hard disk drive is much lower--about €24 for the 60G-byte iPod.
"The 4G-byte iPod nano costs €60 more in France than it does just a few kilometers away over the German border, in part due to the copyright levy. Another factor is the difference in the rates of value-added tax (VAT), a form of sales tax, between the two countries: the rate is 19.6 percent in France, and 16 percent in Germany. One of the cheapest places to buy the 4G-byte iPod nano is Germany, where the €249.01 retail price includes a copyright levy of €2.74 and value-added tax (VAT) of €34.35."









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