Hungary has all but scrapped a controversial internet tax it was planning to introduce next year.
Quoted in the local media, Prime Minister Victor Orbán said the government has now taken the tax, which would have been imposed on all ISPs, off the agenda.
He added that all the companies that would have been affected by the tax had protested.
A motion to withdraw the proposed tax, which would have effectively been an extension of an existing – and also controversial – telco tax – was likely to be submitted by parliament’s economy committee on Tuesday, November 4.
