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Over 10,000 protesters marched through the capital city yesterday to demand the proposal be scrapped, as they believe it would at once increase their tax burden, and curtail their freedom of expression and access to information, according to a Reuters report.
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The tax bill proposes a levy of 150 forints ($0.61) for each GB of data transferred, so as to bolster the 2015 budget for debt-stricken Hungary. However, citizens believe this to be their government’s attempt to ‘limit their right to information,’ as one protester told the Wall Street Journal, and also another misguided economic policy that only serves to distance Hungary further from the rest of Europe.
Prime Minister Orban’s Fidesz party later revised their proposal and suggested a monthly payment cap of 700 forints ($2.87) for consumers and 5,000 forints ($20.5)for businesses, but the move failed to calm angered citizens. Hungarians already pay the highest VAT in the world, at 27 percent, and that covers computers, routers and other internet-enabled devices.
...... http://thenextweb.com/eu/2014/10/27/thousands-protest-hungary-proposed-internet-tax/
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Over 10,000 protesters marched through the capital city yesterday to demand the proposal be scrapped, as they believe it would at once increase their tax burden, and curtail their freedom of expression and access to information, according to a Reuters report.
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The tax bill proposes a levy of 150 forints ($0.61) for each GB of data transferred, so as to bolster the 2015 budget for debt-stricken Hungary. However, citizens believe this to be their government’s attempt to ‘limit their right to information,’ as one protester told the Wall Street Journal, and also another misguided economic policy that only serves to distance Hungary further from the rest of Europe.
Prime Minister Orban’s Fidesz party later revised their proposal and suggested a monthly payment cap of 700 forints ($2.87) for consumers and 5,000 forints ($20.5)for businesses, but the move failed to calm angered citizens. Hungarians already pay the highest VAT in the world, at 27 percent, and that covers computers, routers and other internet-enabled devices.
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http://thenextweb.com/eu/2014/10/27/thousands-protest-hungary-proposed-internet-tax/