This may spur publishers/devs to charge more in these regions to compensate for the new taxes. Only time can tell though.
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I'm in Estonia with a 20% tax and nothing like that has happened to me.
But, then again, this is just a single case and doesn't really represent the reality of the situation.
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Yes, some of these countries are already paying EU prices (Iceland, Serbia) in EUR and are EU candidates. Others already have high enough prices too, like Switzerland. Nothing should change for the buyers, it's just that Valve will withhold larger % of the earnings to pay the taxes in these countries too (like in EU, USA...) instead of it going to developers like before.
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It was implemented in this way for EU same time as euros came to steam.
Before that it was simply US price + EU tax.
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$1=1€ stupid conversion
looking at current 1€=$1.05 rates and $ doesn't have 20% vat, it is actually an advantage by now
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Yay for being Canadian and never having to worry about this :D.
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True. You just have unnaturally expensive yet slow internet instead. :3
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150 Gigabit/s or a monthly plan with a 150 GB datacap?
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Why on earth are there still data caps? Especially when we are talking about North American countries.
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There, there…
gives Cjcomplex a VirtualCookie™ and a hug
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srry but they are called phone line for now, once we get faster internet, we might change the name
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Surprised to see no Belgium in this list. Every tax is a good tax -Every Belgian politician.
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24%!!! Holly hell them Iceland Goverment is greedy.
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RIP Iceland, you said? We already have this amount of tax in Greece. xD Damn, that's why I prefer to buy games from traders that live in other countries.
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May be developers should pay taxes, not customers?
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They do. This only means publishers and Valve gets smaller cut. Consumer prices on the games won't change at all.
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That's good, because I worried what they do like in US, when final prices with taxes you will know only after you pay for them.)
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That is because in that huge freedom, the states can just determine the tax themselves. With that and a few mazes in the entire system, no webshop would be able to calculate a price with tax until you are far enough in the order process.
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14% tax, just more money that can be pilfered from the state coffer :(
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taxes depending on IP for digital goods are the greatest scam that exits
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Good thing my country's goverment still continues to not give a fuck about videogames (as far as I know at least).
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Okay but isn't this actually a really good thing? You still pay the same, but your government now has more money to spend on providing you with healthcare, fixing your roads, etc etc... You're going to get more money and it's Valve that is going to pay it. Unless you're Valve I really don't see how this is a bad deal for you.
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I really wish that higher taxes would provide higher quality of healthcare, education, etc. Unfortunately, that's not always the case.
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the high price your government has to pay because people sit all day long in front of a computer playing games! :O
or maybe they just want a cut, as usual. 💰💰💰
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RIP Iceland especially
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/5vhpm5/taxes_updates_in_2017/
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