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Why not just order from e.g. Germany?
by Lutzb 7y ago
Why not just order from e.g. Germany?
- cf141q5325 7y agoGermany also has that tax. Its on everything from printers to usb sticks and dvd drives. Its especially fucked up since its explicitly to allow for private copies. Instead it is illegal to circumvent copy protection. Those tax schemes are a major rip off and nothing but pandering to powerful lobbies. Its protection money.
- realusername 7y agoActually people still order it from Germany since the French tax is much higher.
- starfox64_ 7y agoLegally speaking you have to declare imported drives and pay taxes on them.
- seer 7y agoIs this specific for drives? I thought the whole European single market thing was to prevent taxing of stuff bought inside the single market? (serious question)
- starfox64_ 7y agoThey have different pricing depending on the type of storage medium (Phone/USB Drive/Regular HDD) https://www.copiefrance.fr/images/documents/tarifs_FR_2019_06_rev_-_D19.pdf https://www.copiefrance.fr/images/documents/tarifs_FR_2019_0... Looking into it, it seems to not be considered a tax as it's not collected by the government, it also states that if you are importing a drive from a country that also collects such a "tax" you should seek to be reimbursed from the exporting country and pay the "tax" to the importing country. Their FAQ: https://www.copiefrance.fr/fr/ressources/questions-reponses https://www.copiefrance.fr/fr/ressources/questions-reponses
- Lutzb 7y agoThank you for the links, I was not aware that the consumer is legally required to pay the "copyright tax" on EU imported storage media falling under this ruling.