The Internet tax will be 300 rubles per year

The General Director of the Russian Union of copyright holders (RSP) Sergey Fedotov called the estimated size of the annual fee from each Internet user in favor of copyright holders-300 rubles.

“Such a tariff model is proposed: if you have an Internet connection, then to your account, whether it is a mobile phone or stationary wired Internet, 25 rubles are added every month. That is 300 rubles per year. According to existing statistical data, this is approximately 5% of the average expenses for the Internet for one access point: now such expenses amount to about 6,000 rubles a year, ”Fedotov TASS quoted.

According to him, the fee will be charged from each connection to the Internet. “If you have a Wi-Fi Internet at home, and you also have 3G on your phone, then you pay for the Internet and for a global license twice,” the head of the RSP explained. It predicts the total annual fee from the Internet subscribers at $ 860 million.

“We believe that this amount will cover the interests of all copyright holders who are represented in the Russian digital market. We are talking about cinema, music and literature, ”said Fedotov.

In October, the RSC proposed a new mechanism for the use of materials protected by a copy on the network - to charge a collection from operators depending on the number of subscribers, and this money is divided between copyright holders. First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov instructed ministries to develop bills before December 5, implementing the concept of centralized money for using intellectual property on the Internet.

The largest Russian Internet companies and copyright holders wrote a letter to President Putin, in which they opposed the Concept of the RSP on the introduction of anti-pirate fees on the Internet, Vedomosti reports . According to the author of the appeal, a number of initially erroneous assumptions are based on the concept of the concept - for example, the fact that all the content on the Internet is illegal. In addition, the introduction of the actual tax on the use of the Internet involves the introduction of a system of traffic traffic system, which contradicts the Constitution and the Tax Code of the Russian Federation.

This fall, the Internet traffic tax was offered to introduce in Hungary, but after mass protests, Prime Minister Viktor Orban withdrew the bill.