<html><head></head><body>BBC licence fee is for BBC funding. Not a general way to fund content for all sources. <br>
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C<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2016 12:46:58 GMT+00:00, vinton cerf <vgcerf@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br /><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Cynthia Khoo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyn.khoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">cyn.khoo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br /></div><div>First, a couple points of clarification, to ensure everyone is on the same page--Mark mentioned above, but to reiterate: </div><div><br /></div><div>1) Neither new tax that the Canadian government is considering is a general sales tax like HST, GST, etc., which already applies to other domestic goods and services. The first "tax" ("ISP tax") would be a special levy on ISPs for the purpose of contributing to the Canadian content system, like broadcasting distributors currently have to; and the second "tax" ("Netflix tax") would be a mandated fee that online content
providers would have to contribute to that same Canadian content system. </div><div><br /></div><div>--------</div></div></blockquote><div>This reminds me of the television tax in the UK that pays for BBC content as I understand it?</div><div><br /></div><div>v</div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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