Satellite Companies Praise Axing of Ohio Tax

SATELLITE COMPANIES PRAISE AXING OF OHIO TAX
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Ohio Judge Daniel Hogan has ruled that a state sales tax on satellite TV service was discriminatory because it did not apply to other multichannel-video providers. Satellite companies are using the ruling as an opportunity to plug the State Video Tax Fairness Act, which was introduced three weeks ago in the House by, among others, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI). The act would essentially codify the judge's decision in statute by expressly prohibiting any state from imposing "a discriminatory tax on any means of providing multichannel-video programming-distribution services, including Internet protocol (or any successor protocol), direct-broadcast satellite delivery and cable-television services." Translation: A state could not charge a tax on satellite that it did not charge on cable, telco or other equivalent multichannel-video services.
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