Re: [tlug] Japan to Tax E-Content

[Noda Yoshikazu <noda.yoshikazu@example.com>]

I presume that this is happening because the bureaucrats found another
gold mine in download sales from overseas. They will protect big
companies, but never protect retail stores nor consumers.

-Yoshi

2014/1/15 steve <sjs@example.com>:
> On 01/14/2014 07:19 PM, CL wrote:
>> Another reason to hate Abe and the LDP.  By 2015, you'll have to pay
>> shouhizei on the content you download from overseas, a move to "protect"
>> domestic book retailers. Yeah, sure, I believe that. There are so many
>> English-language e-book sales outlets in our local shotengai ... and I
>> walk right by all of them to go to Amazon ...
> I guess protecting their domestic book retailers is why it's so
> difficult to get japanese ebooks outside of japan too.  I don't get
> it...  Is this some form of 鎖国?
>
> Steve S.
>
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