[Chapter-delegates] [Internet Policy] Taxing Internet services

[vinton cerf]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Cynthia Khoo <cyn.khoo at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> First, a couple points of clarification, to ensure everyone is on the same
> page--Mark mentioned above, but to reiterate:
>
> 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.
>
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This reminds me of the television tax in the UK that pays for BBC content
as I understand it?

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