[FYI] France To Tax Computers, Disks, Phones -- oder auch nicht?

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=REU20010115S0007

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France To Tax Computers, Disks, Phones  

By Crispian Balmer, Reuters  

Jan 15, 2001 (10:07 AM)  

URL: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU20010115S0007  

PARIS -- France is planning to slap levies on the sale of computers 
and digital recording devices to ensure musicians and film-makers are 
compensated for pirate copying, its Culture Minister said in an 
interview published on Monday. Among the products that look certain 
to be targeted are computers, hard disks, electronic game machines, 
DVD players, new-generation mobile phones, and CD burners that copy 
data onto blank compact discs.  

Manufacturers, already up in arms about the introduction later this 
month of levies on recordable compact discs and DVDs, immediately 
denounced the leftist government's latest proposals.  

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http://actu.nomade.fr/html/med/010116151949.sa59w7a1.asp

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Pas de taxation des ordinateurs, selon Catherine Tasca  

[ 16/01/2001 - 16:19] PARIS (AFP) - La ministre de la Culture et de 
la Communication, Catherine Tasca, a déclaré mardi lors des questions 
au gouvernement, que celui-ci n'avait pas l'intention d'imposer une 
taxe sur les ordinateurs.  

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