The Uruguay Government ordered its revenue entity to study the way to start charging taxes to OTT platforms such as Netflix and Spotify as an answer to the request made by the Uruguayan National Broadcasters Asociation (Andebu), according to the local newspaper El Observador.
Andebu gathers all TV channels and Cable TV operators and had demanded the Government to take action in taxing the multimedia services offered by Netflix, particularly, but to the rest of the foreign companies operating in that country as well.
“It doesn’t make any sense that channels and Cable TV operators should pay their taxes and that Netflix shouldn’t pay anything. In other countries they are already paying”, said the President of Andebu, Pedro Abuchalja, in an article published some days ago in the El Pais journal. Netflix is available in Uruguay since September 2011.
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