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

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

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

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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