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

[Christian de Larrinaga]

BBC licence fee is for BBC funding. Not a general way to fund content for all sources. 

C

On 13 November 2016 12:46:58 GMT+00:00, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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