Re: [tlug] Japan to Tax E-Content

[furkan@example.com]

On 2014-01-15 12:58, Stephen Lee wrote:
> CL <az.4tlug@example.com> wrote:
> > Another reason to hate Abe and the LDP.  By 2015, you'll have to pay
> > shouhizei on the content you download from overseas, a move to 
> > "protect"
> > domestic book retailers.
>
> I suppose that will work with Amazon, but how do they do that to
> companies that have no physical presence in Japan?

I suppose they will only force big companies to open up offices in 
Japan. Turkiye does something similar. (Turkish) government says that 
they're doing that for taxing advertisement incomes but they are 
actually using those local offices to push censorship, making it way 
easier for them to have somebody to phone and make them delete/disable 
contents. Only difference with Japan would be, Japan might be really 
considering economics, also control over the industry as a side benefit 
(or the other way around).

Furkan Mustafa