Denmark the first country to instate Internet Tax

[dktekno]

Today the Ministry of Culture in Denmark announced that the government has decided to instate a new Internet Tax. There were a proposal a month ago, but now it is being the reality - and even more expensive than it looked like.

The license will be $388.7 a year for owning a computer with an internet connection, a cell phone or even an Ipod.

This is the worlds first Internet Tax ever instated.

The license inspectors can also go from home to home and find out if you have something that you have to pay a license for.

If you dont pay it, the punishments can be severe.

 

[BicycleRepairMan]

ipod... wtf?? it doesnt even have radio?? Does it offer anything in return? like wifi everywhere? or support for makers of movies/music/games etc, if so , It might be a little ok, if not, I hope we dot get this dumb **** up here..

 

[dktekno]

All they will offer in return is - a new childrens channel!

I am going to pay $388.7 a year just because the danish families want a new childrens channel. That is what the money are going to be used for.

 

[BicycleRepairMan]

All they will offer in return is - a new childrens channel!

I am going to pay $388.7 a year just because the danish families want a new childrens channel. That is what the money are going to be used for.

A TV channel?? that makes absolutely no sense, if anything should be given back, (and it should) it ought to be directly related to internet services... lame.

 

[dktekno]

Facts about Denmark:

The tax is at 40 % for low income.
50 % for middle income.
60 % for high income.

The Sales Tax VAT is at 25 %.

The car tax is 25 % of the cars price and 180 %.

Besides of this, there will be a new Internet Tax at $388.7 a year.

And then we have Compulsory Military Service. All males are required to serve. I was lucky I wasnt drafted.

Besides of this, internet connections in Denmark cost about $60/month for a 2 Mbit internet connection.

In the nursing homes, the eldery are often left alone to **** in their pants. There has been a scandal about this. And the government do nothing about it.

The government also owns the biggest Public Service channel, DR, who will recieve the Internet Tax. DR is a socialist channel, and as such, even though there were a lot of criticism towards the Internet Tax, they only interviewed those who agreed with it. It has a lot of censorship.

There has also been censorship on other things in Denmark. Some months ago, a man made a web site, where he criticised the police. The police then called the provider of the server to shut it down because it had too much criticism.

 

[Musketeer]

Egads, does anybody remember how out of control the thread on this exact same subject got last month...

Sorry to hear about your lame tax!

 

[trench]

They are only raising revenue to pay for the services the people request the government to supply...

 

[Musketeer]

They are only raising revenue to pay for the services the people request the government to supply...

Trust me, just nod your head, extend your symapthies, and run away. You have no idea how bad it got last time...

 

[BicycleRepairMan]

They are only raising revenue to pay for the services the people request the government to supply...

Except that the goverment doesnt supply the internet, as thats probably run entirely by private companies. I guess its like Norway, where the state sponsored the initial building and maintainence of telephone lines etc via a state run company, in our case "Televerket" which then got privatized and became Telenor. If we were to pay taxes for the net now, then the only thing we'd get back would be the websites run by the state ..

 

[Grobut]

They are only raising revenue to pay for the services the people request the government to supply...

Nope, the current Government got elected because they promised to not raise the taxes, but now they have with this new internet tax, gee, i wonder if the voters will like that..

I guess one good thing will come of it, i doubt they will be reelected.

 

[Winna]

Eh, where are your scources?

 

[myzko]

When is the next vote? soon they will probloby ban all the other parties! or fake the votings

 

[[CiA]Stiletto]

You know, we in the US have the Second Amendment precisely because of stuff like this.

 

[BolshevikBastard]

Denmark needs it, like 30% of the people are on wellfare, hihihihiihihiihihi.

Nah seriously, gay tax.

 

[myzko]

You danes should imigrate to Sweden (bring ur beer)

 

[Tak]

Keep in mind, for all the huge taxes, the social safety net in Denmark is HUGE. If you're a Danish-born citizen you have what is quite possibly the most incredible 'benefits' package given by any country, just for being a citizen.

Only Sweden can really compete, so far as I know (and I grant, that knowledge is slim, so feel free to educate me )


I don't get this internet tax thing though. I can't find any articles about it. Links dktekno? What paper is it in?
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[dktekno]

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2006/06/06/06103703.htm
http://www.computerworld.dk/art/34204?a=fp&i=1

No english sources.

 

[CatMangler]

Crap tax!



You can bet that the UK government will be rubbing their greedy little hands together if they hear about this.

A new tax to fund Mr 3 Jags, his country estates and slapper secretaries.


Politicians are all the same :/

 

[Fu. Svedberg]

I see nothing strange with that license fee.

It incorperates all kind of equipment that can recive TV brodcasts. Denmark just like sweden, has had this kind of fee on TVs for a long time to secure public service TV.

Now I don't see anywhere in those 2 articles that you linked that it's a internet tax (it might be that they just chose to not mention it).

Also the tax on iPods does not surprise me at all. We, here in sweden, have had a extra fee on HDDs, MP3 players, VHS tapes, music tapes, CD-r and DVD-r for a long time. Basically on all type of media that can store video and music, almost everything of this extra fee on all these devices goes directly into the pocket of the poor companies in the record and movie industry.

 

[trench]

Nope, the current Government got elected because they promised to not raise the taxes, but now they have with this new internet tax, gee, i wonder if the voters will like that..

I guess one good thing will come of it, i doubt they will be reelected.

Sorry for not being more clear in my statement.
Let me try again.
The more government services and programs = greater tax burden.

So as governemnt costs increase they must take from somewhere to increase revenue. What else can they do?