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CEC again warns Belgium over taxes on satellite dishes

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Television services: Commission again warns Belgium over taxes on satellite dishes

DN: IP/00/237 Date: 2000-03-09

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IP/00/237

Brussels, 9 March 2000

Television services: Commission again warns Belgium over taxes on satellite dishes

The Commission has sent a letter to Belgium urging the Government to respect Community law by ensuring the immediate and definitive repeal throughout the country of all taxes levied on satellite dishes and the refund of any taxes already paid. The Commission believes that the tax levied by some local authorities ("communes") on satellite dishes constitutes an obstacle to the cross-border reception and distribution of television signals and therefore violates the principle of the free movement of services as laid down in the Treaty (Article 49).

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