Re: [tlug] Japan to Tax E-Content

[Jason Frisch <jfrisch@example.com>]

Actually the article says the local company will pay.
So if we use foreign software, we now need to pay an extra 8% on top of the increase price due to the JPY crash.
Great one Abe! But hey, we all NEED higher prices to get the economy going, right?!

Jason

2014/01/15 12:52、Darren Cook <darren@example.com> のメール：

>> By 2015, you'll have to pay shouhizei on the content you download
>> from overseas, a move to "protect" domestic book retailers.
> 
>> http://www.itworld.com/it-management/399937/japan-tax-sales-content-downloaded-abroad?goback=.gde_73211_member_5828825356945080322#!
> 
> Dubious Journalism Alert:
> 
> Research by Daiwa Institute of Research Holdings suggests that in 2012,
> Tokyo missed out on around 25 billion yen (US$240 million) in
> consumption tax receipts that could have been levied on online goods and
> services such as music downloads and advertising.
> 
> Unless you break out just the "advertising" part of that estimate, it is
> not telling us anything useful about how much this new tax would generate.
> 
> But however much it generates it is hard to imagine it is ever going to
> be worth it: they are saying non-Japanese companies have to register
> with the Japanese tax authorities and pay collected tax to Japan.
> 
> How can that be enforced, without moving to a Chinese-style firewall to
> block sites that are not cooperating?
> 
> Oh. Naru hodo.
> 
> Darren
> 
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