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9.4% tax on $8 a month is around 75 cents. People will complain about anything.
How do people so clueless end up in a public office that can even make a decision like this?
9.4% tax on $8 a month is around 75 cents. People will complain about anything.
Huh? People are complaining because it's a pointless tax. Cable taxes cover the costs of ROW maintenance and regulations. Netflix doesn't need any of this. We should be pissed. Taxes without reason is theft, plain and simple.
9.4% tax on $8 a month is around 75 cents. People will complain about anything.
A municipal tax on cable TV can be enforced because there's a physical line to a residence in the municipality. What's stopping users from ordering netflix to an "address" in a tax-free municipality? For that matter, how are they determining this in the first place? I never told netflix where I live; they only have a billing address. But billing addresses aren't where tax is due; I regularly pay municipally taxed ser…
wouldn't they go off the billing address if they could not determine it in another way?
I live in UK and I haven't been watching broadcast TV since 2013 - streaming all that I need. So, I will find it annoying if I am hit with an additional TAX just because I utilize the service that I already pay for to the best of my abilities - mind you that I also pay additional subscription fees for online streaming content and faster fiber. I totally support the TAX on plastic bags to prevent littering the environ…
Are you streaming live broadcasts? Because that requires a tv licence.
> but TAX on online content? What is the point of that?
I guess to provide investment into the infrastructure, supported by heavy users. I'm not sure what the evidence is about usage of networks and streaming.
I live in UK and I haven't been watching broadcast TV since 2013 - streaming all that I need. So, I will find it annoying if I am hit with an additional TAX just because I utilize the service that I already pay for to the best of my abilities - mind you that I also pay additional subscription fees for online streaming content and faster fiber. I totally support the TAX on plastic bags to prevent littering the environ…
> streaming all that I need. Are you streaming live broadcasts? Because that requires a tv licence. > but TAX on online content? What is the point of that? I guess to provide investment into the infrastructure, supported by heavy users. I'm not sure what the evidence is about usage of networks and streaming.