Protests against "porn tax" Italian
The Italian government's decision to include in its anti-crisis package called "pornoimpuesto", a 25 percent tax on all materials and expression related to pornography, led the protest of stars in the industry. Proposed in 2002 by a member of Forza Italia, the party of current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and never applied, "pornoimpuesto" was resurrected in the anti-crisis decree law approved by the Italian Council of Ministers. 
According to Article 31 of the decree, the lien shall apply to publications, including "all literary, theatrical and film, multimedia, or done on computer support where you have images with explicit sexual acts between adults." But the new tax was immediately criticized by the "stars" of the Italian porn industry.
"It is wrong, pure moralism, the government will lose popularity auditing the industry," said actor and producer Rocco Siffredi porn. "I understand that the government needs money, but the crisis we suffer more than anyone since the Internet is no longer there win anything, "he told the Italian press from Hungary, where it has" exiled ".
For the former diva Ilona Staller, better known as "Cicciolina", the "pornoimpuesto" will be the last "hit" for an industry already in crisis thanks to the Internet. "That fiscalicen rather who has the yacht or megavilla" said. In the same vein said Eva Henger, "queen" of porn from the nineties, according to which "pornotasa" is "hypocritical" because in theory in Italy is forbidden to produce pornography, so there would be no tax pay.
"If, however, pornography becomes a totally legitimate, then it might pay taxes," he said. According to a report included in the anti-crisis decree, the turnover of the pornography industry in Italy amounts to $ 338 million (almost two billion dollars) annually, with an average growth of five percent each year.
With the implementation of "pornoimpuesto" it is estimated that in 2009 the industry was able to obtain resources by 254 million euros (400 million dollars). "It's ridiculous pornoimpuesto; not oversee things snuff and alcohol or harmful to health but those that are harmful to certain moral, "said Senator Donatella Porretti, the Radical Party. (With information from Notimex / MVC)
