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Hungarians stage Budapest protest against internet tax
Source: BBC
Thousands of protesters in the Hungarian capital Budapest have demanded a halt to a proposed law which would place a tax on internet use.
Demonstrators held their mobile phones aloft outside the economy ministry and hurled old computer parts at the gates of the ruling Fidesz party.
Campaigners say the legislation is "anti-democratic" and will hit the poor. Ministers have promised to place a cap on the tax.
The draft law, proposed by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, would levy a fee of 150 forints (£0.40; €0.50; $0.60) per gigabyte of data traffic.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29783253
Tens of Thousands of Hungarians Protest Against Planned Internet Tax
Source: Wall Street Journal
BUDAPEST–Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested Sunday night in Budapest against the government’s plan to tax the Internet, a move they said was aimed at limiting access to information, muzzling non-government media and directing attention away from the country’s deteriorating relationship with the U.S.
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“They want to limit our right to information and shepherd us toward state media,” said one of the street protesters in Budapest, a logistics manager who identified himself as Berci, 55.
Under its draft 2015 tax bill submitted to parliament on Tuesday, Hungary’s government plans to impose a 150 Hungarian forint ($0.62) tax on every gigabyte of data users started.
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While the street demonstrations were underway, Mr. Orban’s governing Fidesz party, which has a two-third majority in parliament, issued a statement to announce it will submit an amendment Monday to the proposed bill. Under the amendment, it would cap the tax at 700 forints ($2.87) a month, which the Internet service providers and not the subscribers and households are to pay, it said. The economy ministry has said it wants to collect some HUF20 billion annually from the tax versus industry estimates that the planned tax, in its current form, would fetch as much as HUF100 billion a year for the budget.
Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/10/27/tens-of-thousands-of-hungarians-protest-against-planned-internet-tax/?mod=e2tw
Source: Wall Street Journal
BUDAPEST–Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested Sunday night in Budapest against the government’s plan to tax the Internet, a move they said was aimed at limiting access to information, muzzling non-government media and directing attention away from the country’s deteriorating relationship with the U.S.
...
“They want to limit our right to information and shepherd us toward state media,” said one of the street protesters in Budapest, a logistics manager who identified himself as Berci, 55.
Under its draft 2015 tax bill submitted to parliament on Tuesday, Hungary’s government plans to impose a 150 Hungarian forint ($0.62) tax on every gigabyte of data users started.
...
While the street demonstrations were underway, Mr. Orban’s governing Fidesz party, which has a two-third majority in parliament, issued a statement to announce it will submit an amendment Monday to the proposed bill. Under the amendment, it would cap the tax at 700 forints ($2.87) a month, which the Internet service providers and not the subscribers and households are to pay, it said. The economy ministry has said it wants to collect some HUF20 billion annually from the tax versus industry estimates that the planned tax, in its current form, would fetch as much as HUF100 billion a year for the budget.
Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/10/27/tens-of-thousands-of-hungarians-protest-against-planned-internet-tax/?mod=e2tw
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