New DigiTax comes into force early in the New Year

Digitax is to be imposed to protect intellectual property rights and compensate for work copied for private use.
Under the tax, which has taken over a year to thrash out and could come into force early in the New Year, external hard drives will see an extra 12 euros added to their price with MP3/MP4 players, mobile phones and CD and DVD recorders having 3.15, 1.5, 0.60 and 3.40 euros respectively added.
Other items which are already being taxed will see cuts. These include blank CDs in the following formats: CD-R down from 0.22 to 0.17 euros, DVD-R down from 0.60 to 0.44 euros.
Other formats such as CD-RW and DVD-RW stay at 0.22 and 0.60 euros respectively.
The extra tax on multifunctional ink printers will drop from 15 to 7.95 euros and on laser printers it will be cut from 15 euros to 10. Scanners will carry the same tax of nine euros.