Tuesday, April 1, 2014

EU to Tax Cameras!

Digital Camera World has an article today on a new annual tax to be levied on any camera with a value over 240 Euros.

I suspect this is an April Fool's Day joke.  Every mention I can find of this "camera tax" leads back to this one story.

The thing is, this isn't that far fetched given the things that the EU has done recently, including a ruling a couple of years ago that any camera capable of recording more than 30 minutes of video fell under the heading of camcorder for import/export classification.

That resulted in those cameras being subject to a 4.9% import duty.


And that's no joke.

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