French mobile phone tax
p2pnet news | P2P:- France will start taxing music-enabled mobile phones as of May 1.
Units featuring audio and/or video with a memory of more than 128 MB will be hit with the tax, which is being implemented under the the private copying regime, says Billboard.
“Government officials reported said the tax on multimedia phones would range from €5 ($7.8) to €50 ($78),” says the story.
“The taxation of mobile phones has been under discussion since last September and had unsurprisingly raised some controversy, with several manufacturers questioning the very existence of private copying.”
In February, “device manufacturers left the negotiation table, which stalled but could not impede the vote on the new taxation,” it adds.
Billboard – France Taxes Multi-Media Cell Phones , April 7, 2008
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