Internet tax
As Internet control one is taxing Internet use designated.
Internet tax in Hungary
In October 2014, the government discussed the introduction of a tax on the use of the Internet in the draft amendments to the Hungarian tax law. The talk was of 150 forints (just under EUR 0.49) per gigabyte of data traffic up to an upper limit of 700 forints per month for private individuals and 5000 forints for corporate customers. This was the first and so far only tax of this kind in Europe. According to the Hungarian government plan, this tax would have brought in 80 to 100 million euros a year, which should have flowed into the expansion of the Hungarian broadband Internet.
As a result, protests were called via the Facebook group “Hundreds of thousands against the Internet tax”, in which thousands of people ultimately took part. The project was then withdrawn.
Telecommunications and Internet companies had condemned the project as it would reduce the country's competitiveness .
literature
- Sowmyan Jegatheesan: Taxing the Internet. Is that feasible? December 2014, arxiv : 1502.02081 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ T / 1705. Draft amendments to the Hungarian tax law for 2015 (pdf) parlament.hu. P. 52. October 21, 2014. Accessed May 22, 2015.
- ↑ Orbán withdraws controversial internet tax . Retrieved May 22, 2015.
- ↑ Viktor Orbán overturns controversial Internet tax in Hungary . Retrieved May 22, 2015.