BUZZURRO

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. (…)
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 .

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Now, I’m no fan of porn, but I don’t think it should be taxed because it is ‘questionable’ industry.
Child pornography is one thing, but if adult people want to watch an adult porn movie I don’t see what is wrong with that. To me, that is not ‘questionable’.
Too many things are taxed in Italy already. With the salaries being as low as they are and prices being as high as they are, I really don’t think there should be any new taxes at all, even on porn…

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