Taxing the internet

.....what ever happened to net neutrality. The person who invented the world wide web wanted it to be free for everyone. Taxing is a really dick move on the governments part

21% VAT on everything here anyway, so w/e. hungary is even worse :| only your corporate and income tax are nothing

Heard about that. It really sucks. I hope for you guys that they rethink the whole idea.
Do you have a consumers' party by any chance? What do they say about that?

this is madness.. RIOT !!

And when somebody speaks out against the government, they get banned (like from their website, from FB, etc). Just like communism. I do believe, they have people even here (like on Steam), who are watching.

The pri*k who came with this idea would be dead already in my country... We don´t like to be fu/ked by someone... :D

So you pay monthly for internet and you still have to pay taxes for it? You really have a rotten goverment

• If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
• If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
• If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
• If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

• Don't ask me what I want it for
• If you don't want to pay some more
• 'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman

Everybody, please stand by us, we really need this at the moment! This is not democracy...

Borzasztó, hogy mi folyik ebben a demokráciának nevezett förtelemben.. Ha van esze ennek a seggarcnak, nagyon hamar visszavonja ezt az adót, különben a nép haragjával kell szembenéznie. Nem volt elég, amit eddig csórtak, tovább kell folytatni egyre ocsmányabb megoldásokkal...

Oh gawd, that's terrible :/

HERESY ALERT! SEND IN THE IMPERIAL GUARD!

Riot, obviously.

Or just get the hell out, any country that manages to pass a law like that clearly is fucked in the head.

When I heard that in the news I didn't hear the name of the country at first and for a moment I thought it was for my country and I was like shit I have to find a baseball bat. Then I saw it was for Hungary and I was like, well shit, they have to find baseball bats.
I live in Greece and I kinda understand your situation with all the taxes and shit but damn...on the internet?!!

Yeah, it's bad and all, but it's not the worst in history. For hungarians here, check out what our beloved Matthias I. had done to our tax system. Sure, he anally assaulted the most wealthy people with his taxes, but he was also the one to ask EVERYONE to pay a larger sum for every goddamn chimney that a house had. It was called "smoke tax". In the fucking 16th century. For goddamn chimneys.

Anyway, this is probably not going to last for too long, they really lost pretty much all their popularity by this, so their regime is at an end for good now, wether or not they'll revoke the law. I just hope this doesn't give people enough reason to go out and riot, as that's what they do even in cases when we hear a politician say a bad word on tape. This country is fucking ridicoulous, but don't believe it's the politicians only.

Also, for a fun experience, check out what Google says about our average monthly net income. It says like 200 000 Fts (~900 dollars), and what the blistering fuck do they even mean by that. I know not one single person that has an average net income over 150 000 Fts (only exception are those extremely wealthy ones), and I worked as an insurance agent a few years back, so I visited households of all kinds of income, believe me. Check your statistics, Google, you're drunk.

thats crazy man, some of these eastern countries have crazy government, you can't even visit others countries freely

SOME COMMENTS HAS DISAPPEARED? WHAT HAPPENED???

I just realized that we pay 18% VAT on everything including phone calls and internet, so yeah... maybe I should shut up.

They are basically making people go back to the early times of internet. We are no longer using modems and internet over the phone lines, and to set a tax so HIGH is just stupid. I hope they remove this and no other country tries to pass bullshit like this, good luck to everyone living in Hungary.

Move to a different country :D

Many say that Orbán and his liking for exploiting unconventional financial sources are at fault, but personally i tend to see this as another test ballon. The internet has become a threat to governments and their 3-letter agencies world-wide, because people can use it to inform themselves independent from national propaganda and state controlled press, therefore they try to disable it by any means available. Compromising the internet with 1984-esque mass surveillance was exposed and becomes increasingly problematic to justify, so this time they try the economic route by making it simply unaffordable with loltax step by step. It isn't a coincidence that they try this in hungary of all countries. If they manage to enable this in a country where people tend to be rather insurgent against those kind of things, they can pull this in any other country too. Fortunately there seems to be a fast growing resistance against those plans, i hope they manage to gather enough people and complain enough to make Orban and friends bury those silly plans.

Everybody up in arms about how the internet is being taxed in Hungary when most countries in the world have their water supply and infrastructure owned by private, usually foreign, interests.

Seriously, you joke about taxing oxygen, but if it wasn't an atmospheric gas we'd be lining someone's pockets to fill up!

Just what you said - like taxing breathable air. Yeah... This is very wrong, terribly wrong. And I'm afraid some countries may follow this example in the neverending pursuit of filling their coffers.

Fuck Hungary I'm so glad I left while I could. It's a mess, the internet tax is by far not the worst thing that is happening.

REMOVE FIDESZ

I have live in Denmark, and I have lived in Spain, and on both places the internet conecction has taxes, just like the phone line or private TV (in Denmark also for the public one). The real problem here is that the tax increases the price heavily, as 0.6$ are a lot more in Hungary than in USA.
I don't defend the measure, I just inform you about the fact that many goberments tax the internet at the moment, the only difference is the how.