MPs Call for New Tax on Streaming Customers After Netflix Drama ‘Adolescence’ – Guido Fawkes

MPs Call for New Tax on Streaming Customers After Netflix Drama ‘Adolescence’

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A new campaign from MPs in the Culture, Media, and Sport committee is calling for a new tax on streaming services. Higher prices for UK streamers…

This tax, 5% of subscriber revenue, would be put “into a cultural fund to help finance drama with a specific interest to British audiences” because “distinctly British content” is “under threat.” The report says productions like ‘Adolescence’ are “vital” to the country’s “identity, national conversations and talent pipeline.” It was of course produced by Netflix, which MPs are now proposing to tax. Make it make sense…

The tax campaign, led by CMS committee chairman Caroline Dinenage, has had wide airings on the Today Programme, Sky News, and across the BBC and print media. The fund it would establish would decide to fund strategic British drama productions to stimulate the national conversation in the same way that ‘Adolescence’ has done. Might as well just found ‘Britfilm‘ now and be done with it…

Things have got so absurd with ‘Adolescence’ that Kemi is having to argue with Naga Munchetty as to whether or not it is crucial to watch as a “documentary” on “toxic masculinity” and “smartphone use.” Not only is Adolescence writing government social policy, it is now to be responsible for levying additional taxes…