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[PSUs]| Friday 19th January 2001 |
Culture minister Catherine Tasca wanted to tax PCs in order to compensate artists for loss of intellectual rights due to online piracy. Several PC manufacturers spoke out and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and Finance Minister Laurent Fabius both condemned the proposal, forcing Tasca to rethink.
Fabius even went on to Inter Radio France saying that the government wouldn't be thinking up new taxes, especially when it was trying to encourage PC use.
Tasca then told the National Assembly that no PC tax would be imposed and the government had no future plans to do so.
France already taxes audio and video tapes due to piracy and is extending that to CDs, DVDs, minidiscs and MP3 players.
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