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

[Eileen Gallagher]

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.

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.

We haven't had an internet tax here but ISP services attract 23% Value 
Added Tax ( VAT - sales tax)

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 - 
http://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/video/commission-hungary-s-internet-tax-is-a-terrible-idea/

Eileen



On 13/11/2016 12:46, vinton cerf wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Cynthia Khoo <cyn.khoo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cyn.khoo at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     First, a couple points of clarification, to ensure everyone is on
>     the same page--Mark mentioned above, but to reiterate:
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>     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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