France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/france-is-getting-download-tax-for-content-providers-%E2%82%AC0-055-gb-for-data-delivered-to-french-users.1675109/

45•bko•1h ago

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ChrisArchitect•1h ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308240

comrade1234•30m ago

I tried playing the monster mash on YouTube tonight. It played two ads then started the song but the video had a weird ai avatar performing. It played for five seconds then started playing another ad.

I'm just bitching....

elmer2•27m ago

I would riot too.

2001zhaozhao•20m ago

The dreaded cloud egress tax, except now it's actually a tax.

benoau•19m ago

What an obtuse way to tax these services.

whatever1•18m ago

Compression is tax evasion!

dataflow•16m ago

Avoidance, not evasion.

ang_cire•10m ago

Avoision*

Muromec•10m ago

That's not it, it's tax optimization, it's sibling with friends in a political parties. Easy to confuse them, looking almost the same, but it's in fact two separate concepts!

WarmWash•16m ago

Can't wait to only be able to stream 240p

stephc_int13•16m ago

This was a proposal, and it was rejected. Not an actual tax or law.

Sayrus•12m ago

Refused a while ago, voted into the 2027 budget (which itself isn't set in stone yet) yesterday: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/3210A/...

This is what all the recent articles are about. It passed 11 against 10 out of 577 potential votes. The chances this makes it into the actual budget are quite slim and it would be insane if it happened.

Retr0id•15m ago

Wow. That's more than the cost of the storage space you'd be downloading onto.

minraws•12m ago

Not if you are using enterprise ssds... but this is some insane profit seeking. I think they should just ask for service providers to pay a share of the local revenues that would be easier to digest than this insanity.

I feel like torrenting is tax evasion now as well in France.

indy•14m ago

Reeks of desperation from a group of bureaucrats who are capable of nothing but taxing people

Computer0•12m ago

Are you familiar with their debt situation?

baal80spam•6m ago

> group of bureaucrats who are capable of nothing but taxing people

Welcome to EU!

aucisson_masque•11m ago

11 votes to 10… there was basically no one to vote for.

Stop wasting your time on that, it’s going to get removed next time.

jedbrooke•8m ago

Maybe this would at least have the silver lining of forcing website operators to not ship 100MB of bloated javascript mess and auto playing video

maelito•7m ago

This tax is not well thought but we need to tax those companies that evade taxes. Let's be creative and strong.

baxtr•6m ago

I wonder if this got solved anywhere yet: how do you get politicians that actually want to save money instead of raising taxes or creating new types of taxes.

I understand that it’s way easier and quicker to do this instead of saving.

That’s the reason they do it in the first place.

I just wonder if there is a way to incentivize them to save instead. Maybe some country was successful at one point in time.

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