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21 mars 2005
DSF: Tax Tech?
DSF stands for Digital Solidarity Fund. It is a plan aimed at taxing hardware purchases in affluent countries, and using the collected funds to buy mobile telephones, computers and so on for developing nations. A laudable initiative by many standards. The DSF movement was created in 2003 and is of course backed by the majority of potential receiver nations.
"The 'digital' tax would be adopted voluntarily," Reuters reports in the New Zealand Herald.
Two comments: One, we're seldom asked if we 're willing to pay a tax, so don't expect any referendum on this one (apart from this question by post2000: are you willing?), and two, if the tax is to be adopted "voluntarily," what makes it so different from financial aid as it is handled today?
mars 21, 2005 dans Technologie | 
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