tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post8611304307716672467..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: Happy Birthday InfoSoc DirectiveMarie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-24825111660649245412012-01-17T23:14:20.164+00:002012-01-17T23:14:20.164+00:00A question I hope you might be able to answer .
...A question I hope you might be able to answer . <br /><br />Australia used to have a very complex sales tax regime ( for example the tax on tissue paper in a box was much more than the tax on the same tissue paper if wrapped around a toilet roll). Australia in the year 2000 introduced a uniform Goods and Services Tax(GST) http://www.gstaustralia.com.au/.<br /> <br />GST (largely) replaced a complex and hard to see system , levied by both the Federal and the individual state governments , with a Uniform tax levied at the same rate on every transaction. (there are some exceptions, nobodys perfect)<br /><br />Many of the EUs 'copyright' levies are transaction taxes; the nexus between the consent of a right holder and payment to the same right holder is clearly severed. <br /><br />Doesn't the EU have any policy about aiming for a reasonably uniform transaction tax regime?john walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09294818072841970915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-83979156406616307102012-01-17T22:34:42.480+00:002012-01-17T22:34:42.480+00:00"These subsidies and the discriminatory pensi..."These subsidies and the discriminatory pension payments which are enjoyed by composers and publishers in Continental Europe are largely funded by British and American creators' works - yet these same funders sadly enjoy none of the benefits."<br /><br />Basic economics says that this separation of producer and beneficiary is essential to a rent seeker intention .<br /><br />It is also common sense that if the makers of the product lived in the same country and had the same legal rights as the recipients of the rent, there would be problems.<br /><br />Taking money from successful producers of product and awarding it to the unsuccessful is hardly a way of encouraging productivity.<br /><br />Conflating taxes with rights owed individual entities is bad design; their purposes are opposite.john walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09294818072841970915noreply@blogger.com