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<p>In Ireland we also have the TV Licence Fee of €160 per annum
which is essentially a broadcasting tax for every house that has a
TV. <br>
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<p>Our Communications Minister in 2013 announced that they would
extend this charge to a public service broadcasting charge which
would be payable by every house in the country that had a device
capable of receiving TV Content (extending from not just TVs to
smartphones, computers, games devices). The new minister for
Communications announced earlier this year that he was scrapping
this plan. Money from this charge goes to our national
broadcaster, RTÉ to develop public service content. Unlike the
BBC, Ireland's national TV organisation does have advertisements
on TV and Radio. <br>
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<p>We haven't had an internet tax here but ISP services attract 23%
Value Added Tax ( VAT - sales tax)</p>
<p>Not sure if it's previously been mentioned on this thread but
Viktor Orbán government in Hungary had over 100,000 on the streets
protesting an internet tax in that country in 2014. Neelie Kroes,
then of the EU Parliament said it was a 'terrible idea'. This is
her spokesperson at that time covering off a lot of thoughts on it
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/video/commission-hungary-s-internet-tax-is-a-terrible-idea/">http://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/video/commission-hungary-s-internet-tax-is-a-terrible-idea/</a></p>
<p>Eileen</p>
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<div>First, a couple points of clarification, to ensure
everyone is on the same page--Mark mentioned above,
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<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>
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<div>This reminds me of the television tax in the UK that
pays for BBC content as I understand it?</div>
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