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Sure still achieves the UK.Gov goal, raise additional revenue, don't directly impact citizens.

• scotty79 8y ago
  It will directly impact people who buy advertisement online in UK because Google and Facebook just raise price by 2% for them.
  • raesene9 8y ago
    yep sure and I'd guess that not many individual UK citizens purchase Google or Facebook ads :) Companies do, but it's just a small bump in their advertising revenue. The UK gov are alll about raising taxes that aren't obvious, so they can raise more cash whilst claiming to be reducing things like income tax. Remember the UK has a really low rate of corp. tax (19%) compared to most other countries, so hitting internet advertisers for a small amount of their budget isn't a big thing.
  • walshemj 8y ago
    That's not how it works ad buyers are not going to automatically increase their budgets.