25% Hardcore porn tax passes
 

.. In Italy. :-P

Rome, Italy (AHN) - All hardcore pornography distributed in Italy will come with a 25% tax, under new legislature introduced in parliament by Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti. Previous attempts to raise new revenue by taxing pornography have failed.

The tax is the result of the minister's overruling objections from the porn industry that they are already paying VAT and it is illegal to tax them twice.

Under pressure to meet EU rules, Rome is desperate to find new revenue to trim its budget deficit.

The new tax is similar to one imposed in France and will apply to all hardcore pornography, including films, magazines and merchandise sold in sex shops.

Tremonti says that, just like his French colleague, he is imposing what he calls an "ethical" tax.

The porn industry in Italy is estimated to be worth more than one billion euros a year.

AZ is about to pass a 40% tax.

Fucking politicians, they cant run a balanced budget so they just tax the shit out of you :mad:

can you say coronary..

damn that is brutal...

That sucks. But in the end it's the consumer that'll pay for it, not necessarily the companies.. prices go up.

that is so stupid, waiting for the air tax

So that only applies to brick n mortar businesses?

best thing that can happen to the biz is a legitimate tax....makes it awful difficult to throw you in jail....see the big picture?

w0rd
probably they tried to get into the biz and falied

No surprises, Italy has even taxes on SMS text messages. It sucks.

nobody will put anyone in jail for porn in Europe anyway...not sure about the US though

no, because there is a worldwide competition online...

Both end up paying, consumers and companies. Both lose in a tax increase situation.

It would suck but you are very right. I also think in italy its only for adult shops not the net, they couldnt do the net. THey are going to go to lens and say you had 3 italian signups you owe us 25%?

There's more to porn than online world.

Wow, thats a pretty sad deal. This does not include online? In that case, their might be more demand for online porn.

Sucks to be living there and working in the biz.

yup, sorry, my bad, I thought its about the online thing :)

There was some US politian on Your world with neil cavuto yesterday talking about how he wants to introduce a 25% porn tax for ALL INTERNET PORN IN USA... he went on to say MOST OF THE PEOPLE PAYING FOR PORN ONLINE IN USA ARE UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE

.....anyone know this jokers name?

I dont think prices will rise much. Its a ww market and in the end they will earn totally less money than from the existing VAT....and further they will have to feed people that loose their jobs. Thats what happen when you have short-thinking politicians.

Miss informed idiot