A proposal for a new tax on newsprint is contained in a draft bill approved earlier this month by the Constitution and Justice Committee of the lower house of the Brazilian national legislature and is due to be debated by the full Congress shortly. IAPA President Raul Kraiselburd, protesting the measure, said that “making newspapers […]
A proposal for a new tax on newsprint is contained in a draft
bill approved earlier this month by the Constitution and Justice
Committee of the lower house of the Brazilian national
legislature and is due to be debated by the full Congress
shortly.
IAPA President Raul Kraiselburd, protesting the measure, said
that “making newspapers more costly is one way dictatorships and
old-fashioned oligarchies try to keep them out of the hands of
the people in the lowest income group or to weaken them
economically and thus jeopardize their independence — actions
totally contrary to the principle of press freedom.”
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