From February 1, 2010, the Belgian government aims to impose an additional tax on the purchase of USB keys, MP3 players and external hard disks to pay for the reproduction of audio and audiovisual works.
Auvibel, the management company responsible for the private copying of sound and audiovisual works, urged the government to extend the existing tax to include digital systems, given the decline in revenue from old media such as CDs and cassettes. Up until now, the tax was only levied on blank CDs and DVDs.
Proposed by the Belgian Economy Minister, Vincent Van Quickenborne, the measure was recently approved by the Council of Ministers.
As a result of the new regulations, consumers will soon have to pay an additional EUR3 for an iPod with a flash memory of 64 GB. From February 1, the cost of a hard disk of more than 1 TB will be an additional EUR9.
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