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One of the best advantages of shopping online is that consumers, when it comes to most online retailers, do not have to pay sales tax. Of course, that could all change as the U.S. Congress has been looking into the issue of Internet taxes that encompass both online state sales taxes and online access taxes but for now, the debate is being postponed until 2015. On Tuesday, Senator Ron Wyden (Dem, OR) said that the government spending bill, which could be released as soon as Tuesday, will extend the ban on Internet taxes for a year. Senator Wyden co-wrote The Internet Tax Freedom Act that prohibits state and local governments from charging discriminatory internet-only taxes...
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Thousands of Hungarian citizens took to the streets in Budapest to protest against the pending Internet tax that was being debated by the established regime. As a result of the protests, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the Hungarian media that the internet tax will be removed from the country’s budget. "This tax in its current form cannot be introduced because the government wanted to extend a telecommunications tax, but the people see an internet tax," Orban said on public radio. "If the people not only dislike something but also consider it unreasonable then it should not be done.” Image Source: Flikr (Gareth Williams) However, the internet tax will not be shelved forever. Orban...
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Last week, Hungary revealed plans to impose a tax on internet data transfers as a way to restore the public finances. However, thousands of Hungarian citizens gathered in the center of Budapest on Sunday to protest the impending tax proposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s regime making it one of the largest anti-government demonstrations since Prime Minister Orban came to power in 2010. The rally was organized by a Facebook group that has around 210,000 supporters. According to estimates by local websites, there were about 10,000 protesters who had gathered around the Economy Ministry saying that the proposed internet tax would increase the tax burden and curtail democratic rights...
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