Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:57AM from the how-to-kill-your-youtube-habit dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Hungarian government has announced a new tax on internet traffic: 150 HUF ($0.62 USD) per gigabyte. In Hungary, a monthly internet subscription costs around 4,000-10,000 HUF ($17-$41), so it could really put a constraint on different service providers, especially for streaming media. This kind of tax could set back the country's technological development by some 20 years — to the pre-internet age. As a side note, the Hungarian government's budget is running at a serious deficit. The internet tax is officially expected to bring in about 20 billion HUF in income, though a quick look at the BIX (Budapest Internet Exchange) and a bit of math suggests a better estimate of the income would probably be an order of magnitude higher.

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Can I get the jelly filled one? by Minupla · 2014-10-22 01:07 · Score: 1, Funny

Mmmm, Internet tax!

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Re:A few things... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-22 01:37 · Score: 5, Funny

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Re:A few things... by qbast · 2014-10-22 02:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Easy, government will forbid increasing fees.