“I’m at Best Buy often, and I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this pre-written software," said Gov. Gavin Newsom.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said it's unfair how some people avoid paying the state sales tax when buying software.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed taxing digital software downloads to match in-store software sales taxes.

“I’m at Best Buy often, and I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this pre-written software," said Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The state already applies a 7.25 percent tax to software sold in physical stores, and now Governor Gavin Newsom wants to expand this to web-based software sales as well, Bloomberg…