Storage Solutions Terabyte Tax - Portugal - Tax on Storage

[challapradyumna]

As a proposal to avoid becoming the 'next Greece', a Portuguese opposition party has proposed a tax on storage. The party claims that the tax will not effect the average citizen and is mostly levied at business users, but internal storage on mobile phones means a 64GB iPhone could be €32 more expensive. From the article: 'The proposal would have consumers paying an extra €0.2 per gigabyte in tax, almost €21 extra per terabyte of data on hard drives. Devices with storage capacities in excess of 1TB would pay an aggravated tax of 2.5 cents per GB. That means a 2TB device will in fact pile on €51.2 in taxes alone (2.5 cents times 2048GB). External drives or “multimedia drives†as the proposed bill calls them, in capacities greater than 1TB, can be taxed to the tune of 5 cents per gigabyte, so in theory, a 2TB drive would cost an additional €103.2 per unit (5 cents times 2048GB)

This is ridiculous.

http://news.techeye.net/hardware/portugal-considers-terabyte-tax

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Yikes! With 7TB i have to ensure I never emigrate/get deported there

 

[ayanavish]

Seems like politicians are "underpaid" in Portugal. What does "next Greece" mean btw?

 

[Mr.J]

Greece is in facing severe financial crisis. Don't know what it's got to do with storage though. Politicians are n00bs. I hope no one here hears about this. HDD prices are already high.

 

[ALPHA17]

Seems like politicians are "underpaid" in Portugal. What does "next Greece" mean btw?

This should help you Sire --> http://en.wikipedia....onomy_of_Greece / http://www.greekcrisis.net/ / http://www.ft.com/in...ece-debt-crisis.

This goes to show that opposition parties in majority of the Western nations are no better than our politico classes, they will pull out whatever vague terms and events to cause a general uproar in the assembly / legislature.

 

[ras]

People of Greece should be freaked out,hope it's stopped soon

Spoiler

hence,Our Government already have other way to bank

 

[ayanavish]

Greece is in facing severe financial crisis. Don't know what it's got to do with storage though. Politicians are n00bs. I hope no one here hears about this. HDD prices are already high.

Thanks #Mr.J and #[member='ALPHA17'] for the inputs. It's not about TB but an innovative way to extract Tax. Ideally they should have started with MB or GB. Seems like politicians never sleep.

 

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

portugal trying to aviod messy default by taxing storage device.....Congrats to portugal they have secured a bailout package from European Union and IMF