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Posted by Huge on 10/22/05 11:28
"the dog from that film you saw" <dsb@REMOVETHECAPITALSbtinternet.com> writes:
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>"Pyriform" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>news:tOSdnXVa1-_Ik8feRVnyjA@pipex.net...
>> Ed wrote:
>>> The point of the original post ws the panasonic man blamed the uk
>>> government for placing higher import duty on a machine with dv in.
>>> Everyone else here has pointed to the legislation being european, so
>>> that totally voids his argument because the european versions DO have
>>> a dv in, according to the instruction manuals you can downoad from the
>>> panasonic site.
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>> I'm not quite sure why you are directing this at me. I was merely
>> responding to a poster who seems to think there exists some bizarre
>> general-purpose "feature tax" on electronic devices. I think he might be
>> confused about the differing roles of marketing departments and
>> legislatures.
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>there is a 'feature tax' though - in that if there is dv in it gets a
>certain tax, and by disabling it, the tax falls to a lower level.
>even though the machine is identical and altered only in firmware.
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>another example - a monitor with DVI input as well as analogue will attract
>a higher tax than one which is analogue only.
What kind of tax? VAT is levied at three levels - so which is it? Import
duty is levied at one level, on everything over a certain cost, so where
does this (imaginary) "feature tax" come from? What is it called? Who
collects it?
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"Other people are not your property."
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