Netflix pushes back on proposed UK levies, streaming faces impact of tariff war

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Netflix pushes back on proposed UK levies, streaming faces broad impact of Trump tariff war

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www.streamtvinsider.com

Also some of this effects how shows and movies are produced within countries.

Earlier this week, Netflix pushed back against the UK’s Influential Culture, Media & Sport Committee (ICMS), which has recommended that the British government collect a 5% levy from all foreign streaming companies operating in the country.

This isn’t new language from the ICMS, which says it wants to protect local producers and keep the UK from becoming a “Hollywood of Europe.” But the rhetoric has re-emerged as Trump has enacted a 10% baseline tariff on all imported goods from Europe and all other international destinations into the U.S. — taxes that remain in place even with the president’s decision Wednesday to pause even-more-austere reciprocal tariffs for 90 days.

For its part, Netflix responded with a statement suggesting that any local levies will be greeted with consumer price increases.

 

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What a load of crap. There's no such thing as the "Influential Culture, Media & Sport Committee (ICMS)". There's the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which is where this came from:

Netflix and co should pay levy to fund crisis-hit UK drama sector, say MPs

British stories risk disappearing from small screen as public broadcasters struggle to compete with streaming services

www.theguardian.com

If they can't get the name right, what confidence in the rest of the "story"? Why do you post this junk?

As for Netflix and the rest of the streamers, I'm tired of so many UK-US co-productions designed for the streaming market. They don't tell our stories - they tell a packaged, sanitised version of our stories, produced mostly for an American audience. It's all miserable gritty crime in grey towns and god-awful period dramas with cleavage and corsets, because that's what the American backers think we're "good at", not to mention endless royal-themed junk. It is, to some extent, offensive in its stereotyping of the country.

British programming, designed for a British audience without having to take into account whether someone in Indiana will understand or tolerate it when it flashes up on their streaming screen, is declining, and that's good for nobody. We have our own diverse, distinctive culture which deserves protection from those who would use their financial superiority to squeeze it out with yet more bland generic goop. Tax them.