State sales tax for Florida added to itunes apple music bill in October 2019.

I am having the issue. Also, Apple is charging the wrong tax. In my area, it is 7%, and they are charging 11%. I am on the phone with them now. The response at first is, "well, this is how the system calculates your tax in your area," my response: well, it's wrong, and you might be overcharging a lot more people than just me. They are elevating it now.

I see that I am not alone in all-of-a-sudden Charges on my apple music account without ANY notice! My apple music went up to $11.10 from the $9.99 it has been since apple music started. Like you, I saw the charge (over the weekend) and thought I had been hacked. This is really low of them to sneak this extra $1.00 in “taxes” (FL) on us without any notice! If they get another dollar from every apple music customer in FL, it’s going to add up! What is this $1.00 for? Where is the justification from Apple for this charge? Where is the notice from them and is this how they treat their monthly PAYING subscribers?! Very low Apple. Very LOW!!

yea I see why everyone can be frustrated this is why I am canceling my Apple Music this month and starting a Spotify account it is cheaper and it provides the same service. I have heard from multiple people that Spotify is really good. I hope the extra $1.07 makes up for all the lose of subscriptions apple.

Ah, the articles that were pointed out (https://floridarevenue.com/taxes/taxesfees/Pages/cst.aspx and https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2016/jun/digital-streaming-and-technology-platforms-sales-tax-treatment.html) are good resources. It is not cool that Apple did not mention this happening, but it is NOT Apple and their greed. It is government and their greed y'all! It is not sales tax as some have pointed out. Look at the invoice/receipt. Glad I found this thread because Apple Support person did not know how to explain what happened and why very well. "TAXATION IS THEFT" really applies but it is OUR government, not Apple. :-)

Should we expect to see Florida CST applied to iCloud Storage? Mine renewed on 10/26 with no CST charged.

Interestingly, Spotify isn't charging CST (yet).

Was surprised to see this tax. I'm cancelling my subscription and iCloud Storage and switching to Spotify. Same music and no tax.

I just noticed the same sales tax. Is this just as Florida tax or will Apple Music start taxing all of its customers? It may not seem like a lot but once these taxes start, they will continue to inch up more and more. So frustrating. :-(

This is crazy I kept getting charged extra lucky my bank stopped it. I called Apple Music and nobody could answer why this happened. I canceled my subscription I’m done. The can have it I’ll rather listen to YouTube and it’s commercials.

Would have been nice to be given some form of warning or official announcement about it. I'm trying to find why my finances are off by a $1.62 and it wasn't until I noticed a higher than normal charge for Apple Music that it made sense.

"...but Florida has specified that only streaming video content is taxable, while other types of streaming digital content are not taxable."

Source:

https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2016/jun/digital-streaming-and-technology-platforms-sales-tax-treatment.html#fnref_2

So why does Apple Music have CST applied?

This tax is incorrect and is double taxation. We are aleady paying telecommunications tax on our cellular and home Internet services through which Apple Music is streamed. The service may be subject to sales and local sales tax but not state and local communications tax. Apple needs to resolve this in their customers interest.

I had the same thing happen today. I was extremely confused because I was charged a CST and local tax. It made me super mad when I looked at my total due I was paying $4.99 then it went to $5.56. Some type of notice would've been nice. Of course they would fail to notify Florida residents of an increase.

I just got off with them too! I keep in researching and I have not found anything about being 11-13% percent, at first the iTunes Custumer service was telling me to call my state and ask! The state wasn’t charging me! It’s way too sneaky. I’ve been holding for dear life to apple products, but tomorrow, I’m getting the Samsung phone, it seems like Apple wants to get their losses of sales will current customers. I look and telecommunications taxes in Florida are 7.44% the state of Florida taxes are 6% plus the city which is from 0.5% - 2% at a max of 8%. This is way too weird for my taste. So moving away from Apple products. Good luck to the people who stays with Apple.

I think the bigger question is why are we paying a communication sales tax on media that is technically the same as television or radio? It shouldn't matter that is is delivered through data on a smart phone! Completely ridiculous!

This morning I made an in-app purchase of 4.99 through iTunes. I was charged $5.33 living in Ohio. That's 14% where the sales tax in Ohio is 7%. I wonder, where is this tax going exactly? Does a portion go to Ohio or is it a loophole for total collection with Apple. Apple charges the same amount of money for their devices that have half the specs as my Note 10+. Apple also charges developers per app submitted in the AppStore. Android has one fee and may submit unlimited to their PlayStore. Also, android charges no tax. We should stop funding criminal organizations such as Apple