Friday, June 21, 2013

Filippetti: a tax on smartphones in 2013 - Reuters

Minister of Culture said the tax would serve terminals connected to a fund for growing private sector.

another tax! She hit this time connected devices, such as smartphones or tablets, and serve to a fund for culture.

Asked RMC Friday morning, the Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, said that the tax on connected devices advocated by Lescure report, “could lead to a fund that would finance such as record stores who are in trouble, “or” the field of photography. ” However, she warned that we should not “weigh the boat for consumers.”

“This is a contribution to the purchase, you only pay once, while a tax on payroll each year,” she said. Pierre Lescure had recommended a contribution of 1%, “the MPs will decide at the end of the year under the Finance Act.” According to the minister, this tax “will be painless for consumers,” but “will have a strong impact on the whole cultural sector.”

Aurélie Filippetti assured, moreover, that this contribution is not used to fund public broadcasting. “I think that we should not mix everything,” she said. “For the public service, we charge ‘, parliamentarians have created a working group to floor on the evolution of his plate. The track enlargement computers and tablets is “a request by some,” she confirms. “No solution is stopped, and the work must continue until mid-July, with an arbitration that will be in the draft budget law for 2014,” according to the information given by the ministry a little more later.

Other tracks mentioned for sustainable financing of France Télévisions, the minister, who had ruled last year a return to advertising after 20 hours on public television, said he was more open today. “But as the advertising market has declined significantly, anyway, it does not compensate for the shortfall of France Télévisions,” she remarked, however.

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