Italian MPs to consider porn tax.....
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Italian MPs to consider porn tax
Rightwinger suggests an amendment to budget bill
(ANSA) - Rome, December 2 - A porn tax, an idea often discussed but never yet implemented, is being looked at seriously again as the government's budget package is debated in parliament .
Daniela Santanché, the rightwing MP promoting the idea, said on Friday that she was studying two possibilities: higher taxes for producers of porno material or increased sales taxes on films, magazines and other products .
She said the new tax could be inserted into the 2006 budget, which parliament must approve this month, through an amendment if all the members of the ruling centre-right coalition agreed .
Santanché gave no details of how much the proposed tax might rake in for state coffers .
Two years ago her National Alliance party proposed a porn tax as a way of providing 100 million euros in funding for scientific and technological research. It said the extra tax was justified because it targeted a "questionable" industry .
In the end the proposal failed to garner sufficient support .
The Northern League party, one of National Alliance's coalition allies, put forward a similar proposal a year earlier but that too was voted down. According to a report released by the Eurispes research institute earlier this year, Italy's pornography industry now has an annual turnover of 1.1 billion euros .
That figure is said to be rising at a rate of about 10% a year, making the industry one of Italy's most resilient, even though experts note it is still far smaller than the German or Spanish ones .
Italy has a commitment with the European Union to bring down its budget deficit to 3.8% of GDP in 2006. A recent European Commission report forecast that the deficit would be 4.2% unless further measures were taken .
http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/200
Italian MPs to consider porn tax
Rightwinger suggests an amendment to budget bill
(ANSA) - Rome, December 2 - A porn tax, an idea often discussed but never yet implemented, is being looked at seriously again as the government's budget package is debated in parliament .
Daniela Santanché, the rightwing MP promoting the idea, said on Friday that she was studying two possibilities: higher taxes for producers of porno material or increased sales taxes on films, magazines and other products .
She said the new tax could be inserted into the 2006 budget, which parliament must approve this month, through an amendment if all the members of the ruling centre-right coalition agreed .
Santanché gave no details of how much the proposed tax might rake in for state coffers .
Two years ago her National Alliance party proposed a porn tax as a way of providing 100 million euros in funding for scientific and technological research. It said the extra tax was justified because it targeted a "questionable" industry .
In the end the proposal failed to garner sufficient support .
The Northern League party, one of National Alliance's coalition allies, put forward a similar proposal a year earlier but that too was voted down. According to a report released by the Eurispes research institute earlier this year, Italy's pornography industry now has an annual turnover of 1.1 billion euros .
That figure is said to be rising at a rate of about 10% a year, making the industry one of Italy's most resilient, even though experts note it is still far smaller than the German or Spanish ones .
Italy has a commitment with the European Union to bring down its budget deficit to 3.8% of GDP in 2006. A recent European Commission report forecast that the deficit would be 4.2% unless further measures were taken .
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