Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, MPs Vote a Tax on Every Gigabyte Sent to the French
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MEPs have adopted a new 5.5 cents per gigabyte tax on data sent to French netizens. Tabled by MP Laurent Lhardit (PS), it could raise 10 billion euros per year.
The National Assembly has just adopted an amendment introducing a tax of 5.5 cents on each gigabyte of data transmitted to French netizens. Should the measure come into force, content providers should switch to the cash register, with a risk of impact on the price of our subscriptions.
The only thing our elected representatives know how to do, the introduction of a new tax has been voted by the National Assembly of our country. Led by Socialist MP Laurent Lhardit, this new tax requires Internet access providers (Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom, Free...) to quantify the gigabytes delivered to their subscribers so that each transmitter pays 5.5 cents per gigabyte of data.
Read the full article on stephaneLarue.com Adopted by 11 votes to 10, the socialist tax charges content providers 5.5 cents per gigabyte delivered to Internet users. It can still fall before the final vote of the budget.
On Friday 30 October, MEPs adopted a tax of €0.055 per gigabyte sent to French netizens by Netflix, Google or Meta. The vote was won by 11 votes to 10, despite the government's unfavorable opinion.
The National Assembly adopted on 30 October an amendment aimed at taxing the volume of data generated by Internet content providers. A measure that could bring up to €5 billion, but which is far from finally adopted. To charge the groups that generate the most traffic on Internet networks: [...] The article Netflix, YouTube, even TF1 soon taxed for their traffic on operators' networks? MPs adopt an amendment that could bring back 5 billion has b…
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