{"id":658203,"date":"2013-05-15T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=515746"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:35:02","slug":"fear-of-american-pop-culture-drives-european-smartphone-tablet-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658203","title":{"rendered":"Fear of American pop culture drives European smartphone, tablet taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/15\/european-smartphone-tablet-tax-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/applefrance-e1348232530289.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"European Smartphone, Tablet Tax Analysis\" title=\"European Smartphone, Tablet Tax Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>European governments are casting a baleful eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/10\/smartphone-tablet-shipments-q4-2012\/\">the explosive smartphone and tablet growth<\/a>. The problem for many Europeans lies in the way these devices promote vehicles for American entertainment \u2014 from <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> and Netflix to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> and Disney. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/may\/13\/francois-hollande-tax-iphones-laptops\">The new proposal<\/a> made by the president of France would slap a 1% tax on all smartphone and tablet retail sales, with a goal to protect &#8220;l&#8217;exception culturelle&#8221;. This exception is a concept France created in 1992 to defend protectionist measures aimed at preserving the cultural heritage of France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/15\/european-smartphone-tablet-tax-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/2l9JPWnbKaU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European governments are casting a baleful eye on the explosive smartphone and tablet growth. The problem for many Europeans lies in the way these devices promote vehicles for American entertainment \u2014 from Amazon and Netflix to Apple and Disney. The new proposal made by the president of France would slap a 1% tax on all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}