Informational tax of Ukraine acquires clearer and more unpleasant outlines

About ten days ago, we were all outraged when we started receiving information about a planned Ukrainian tax, which implies a payment of 1% tax for each byte of information transmitted via computer networks. But the source was from some kind of yellow press: it was clear that some of the facts were silenced, and some were swelling.

It turns out that on the same days, more information about this Ukrainian tax was published in the PRIME-TASS news feed . It turns out that the bill proposes a tax wider and worse than we all have heard so far. Not only Internet access services, but also the cost of cable television is expected to be imputed with a one-percent tax, including mobile Internet, and VoD (video-on-demand distribution). Moreover: a tax of five more percent - five percent - will also be levied on rental certificates, and the cost of entrance tickets to all theaters and cinemas, and the cost of carriers of video information (tapes, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, etc.).

People's Deputies of Ukraine predict that in 2010, the introduction of such a tax collection will help to accumulate about 300 million hryvnia into the budget (1 dollar is equal to about 7.7 hryvnia). The proceeds are planned to be used to finance the state order for staging theater plays, documentaries and feature films, as well as to subsidize the cost of tickets for plays and films produced by the state order. (Tickets for all other performances and films, I recall, not only will not be subsidized, but will also be subject to a five percent tax.)
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The bill was introduced by MP Sergei Terekhin (or Teryokhin: you can't tell in the current press), who is a member of the BYuT faction.

In the summer, Russian analogues of a future disaster were also mentioned in the blogosphere ([ 1 ], [ 2 ]).