NotInHere [soylentnews.org] writes:
In Hungary, the government of Victor Orban wants to
impose world's first traffic-based tax [cnbc.com] of 150 HUF (0.62 USD) per gigabyte of internet traffic. According to economy minister Mihaly Varga, this has been neccessary to "plug holes in the 2015 budget", and to compensate for the people's move of communication habits from 2 cents per min taxed POTS to the untaxed internet. This tax has not just raised criticism by telecom providers, but also
resulted in heavy revolts [rt.com], even though the government later announced to cap the tax at 700 HUF for consumers and 5000 HUF for businesses, and let the telecom providers pay the remaining part.
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