What's to stop both cases being applied simultaneously? Double dipping or dipping plus is endemic in 20th Century regulatory model rights based industries.
With content dispersed physically by so many protocols such as torrents and blockchains into the 21st Century how on earth do you tell where the content starts and ends? Will we see VAT and Rights payments being demanded in all countries the content spans including the country of origin? Note I use "span" not "traverse" as this is a better description of the disembodied nature of online content using these newer protocols. One reason why I am against VAT being reverse engineered to country of "consumption"... What on earth does that end up meaning? All this is really doing is encouraging bad and profligate governments in Europe as now they can set whatever VAT rate they like in expectation they won't be undercut by other country's rates. In other words this policy seems to me to push the direction towards closed self serving government behaviour not open. Christian Alan Cox wrote: > While I'm strongly in favour of the VAT one being at the consumers > location (just the implementation is screwed up) I'm rather less keen on > the idea of yet more breakdown of EU "single" markets by copyright folks, > yet from a tax perspective it probably has to work that way. > > Alan -- Christian de Larrinaga --------- +44 7989 386778 c...@firsthand.net ------------------------- -- Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join To unsubscribe, send a blank email to org-discuss-le...@lists.openrightsgroup.org or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss
