Italy taps porn industry to help curb deficit
 

Hot new from the last hours, Reuters


Rome seeks raise $357.5 million from adult industry by next year

ROME - Italy's cash-strapped government has decided to hike taxes on one of the country's few vibrant industries, pornography, to help rein in the burgeoning budget deficit, government sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

The "porno-tax", which imposes an additional levy of 25 percent on all income from pornography, is contained in a package of amendments to the 2006 budget to presented in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday or Wednesday, the sources said.

Under the amendment, subscribers to hard core television channels must also pay additional value-added tax of 10 percent. Altogether, the tougher tax-treatment of porn should bring the government some 300 million euros ($357.5 million) next year.

Now the US will use the same idea to help support The war that Bush started. FUCK!

25% - that's just fucked up. Legalized robbery.

Gotta wonder how many italian porn companies are gonna fold.

Actually, didn't the U.S. gov't try and introduce some similiar porn tax recently to fund their battle against kid porn (or so they claimed).

Porn saving the countries' national budget sounds great! :thumbsup

shit your right dude!

Jim

This is just a proposal though, right?

this is really interesting obeservation! :thumbsup