17 June 2004 12:20
Russian culture official wants to tax TV viewers
Russians may soon have to pay for television. This proposal has been raised by Mikhail Shvydkoy, head of the Federal
Agency for Culture and Cinematography. If it is to become a reality, Russia needs to institute laws on pay-per-view
television or impose a tax on sales of television sets.
Shvydkoy says the tax should not be prohibitive, it should be a sum of R100-200 per television set. However, the
total revenue from the tax should make television truly independent of advertisers.
[Ekho Moskvy radio] |
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