Friday, December 09, 2005
Italy considers 20% tax on porn
It is news that is sure to leave Italians everywhere droopy and depressed.Reports yesterday suggested that Italians will have to pay a 20% tax on pornography according to a budget amendment that cleared its first legislative hurdle.
The proposed tax was approved at committee level and is expected to go before the Chamber of Deputies, Italy’s lower parliamentary house, early next week.
The tax is expected to raise about €220m to help reduce the national deficit and to help fund government tax breaks to families.
"I believe the porn tax is important not for moralistic reasons, which don’t concern me, but because I think that at a time of difficult economic conditions for families it is right to tax products that are not essential," MP Daniela Santache was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency.
Wow talk about a kick in the balls. If this tax goes through the Italian people will be left pretty much powerless. Impotent you might say.
I wonder what Antonio from Italy thinks about all this?
Personally I think the Italian people need to rise up against this law. They need to find stimulus from somewhere. They can't simply fire blanks on this issue...
# posted by United Irelander @ 3:47 AM 
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