What really crams my muffins: Taxustralia.

[McJob]

The Netflix Tax is happening.

For those of you who aren't paying an arm and a leg to live in the land down under, basically Tony "I'm A Legitimate handicap" Abbott and his forgetbuddy Joe "I'm A Complete and Utter Plank" Hockey have decided that the best way to get the people onside is to unroll yet another tax in a bid to "stop piracy".

The Australian GST (Government Services Tax) is now being applied to digital services including Steam and Netflix. Having just subscribed to Netflix about 3 days ago, you might understand if I'm reasonably pissed off.

Apparently Labour said that it should have been implemented to "protect local suppliers". It should be noted there isn't a single good Australia TV show, and our games market consists mostly of indies making small mobile games that I have almost completely no interesting playing.

forget off, Tony. Use your giant ears to fly back to the motherland where you were born and go get rammed by a pikey. We don't want you, or your backwards taxes.

[Ad Bot]

[plad101]

Australia, where you are babysat by the government and murdered by the wild life.

[Akio]

That's legitimately handicapped.

[plad101]

That's legitimately handicapped.

Welcome to Australia, I would live there is the government wasn't a bunch of morons

[Maxwell.]

um move to britain

same accent, better(ish) governemnt

[Rigel]

Well, if you want a steam game for relatively the same price as before, you need a non-australian supplier.

Hold on, I'm trying to think of a way to make this work.

[IkeTheGeneric]

stop piracy by lining our pockets with cash

[Harm94]

sounds like a bad case of extreme leftist nanny state with stupid old men who know nothing of how people live in the modern world

[Clone v.117]

sounds like a bad case of extreme leftist nanny state with stupid old men who know nothing of how people live in the modern world

Abbott's extremely right wing but apart from that yeah pretty much sums Australia.

[Frequency]

forget off, Tony. Use your giant ears to fly back to the motherland where you were born and go get rammed by a pikey. We don't want you, or your backwards taxes.

i just wanna point out that this killed me

[Nonnel]

dumb

[Electrk.]

wait so
to stop piracy they're making the legitimate services more expensive?

brilliant

[Maxwell.]

wait so
to stop piracy they're making the legitimate services more expensive?

brilliant

that just promotes pirancy. that is the OPPOSITE of what they wanted!

[Kobewarrior]

wait so
to stop piracy they're making the legitimate services more expensive?

brilliant

everything in australia is upside down so there's no surprise here

[Headcrab Zombie]

How is this intended to stop piracy?
The article doesn't mention it, but maybe I'm missing something?

By what the article says it sounds reasonable to me:

"It is plainly unfair that a supplier of digital products into Australia is not charging the GST whilst someone locally has to charge the GST," the treasurer said today, via ABC.

"When the GST legislation was originally drafted, it did not anticipate the massive growth in the supply of digital goods like movie downloads, games and e-books from overseas."

They're just adding a tax that was previously overlooked?