[Chapter-delegates] Canadian content tax, was Taxing Internet services

[John Levine]

>So the question here is how to ensure that the taxes you pay are used in the right way for
>the purpose they supposed to be collected. 

The existing taxes to fund Canadian content are in fact used to fund
Canadian content.  Do a little googling and you can learn all about it.

Can you explain why you don't believe that the ISP content tax would
be used the same as the existing cable and satellite content taxes?

R's,
John

>>1 A tax on online content providers, like content streaming sites (thus, the tax in
>>Canada has been referred to as the ‘Netflix tax’).
>>2 A tax on Internet service, added to a subscriber’s Internet fees.
>
>Canada has a long standing policy of taxing the media to fund Canadian
>content. People now get a lot of media from the Internet that they
>used to get from cable and satellite TV, hence the declining revenue
>in those sectors. The proposal re-evens the playing field. The
>numbers I've seen are like 2%, and if a 2% price rise would kill ISPs,
>they were going to die anyway.
>
>If you think that it's worth funding Canadian content at all, it should
>be funded fairly. If you don't, get rid of the tax on all media and
>don't give just one of them a free pass.