Therefore, the Council of State will have followed the recommendations of the public rapporteur. The independent authority has decided to cancel the private copy levy on refurbished products without retroactivity, according to media reports. the informed. At the end of November, the public rapporteur presented his conclusions on the subject.
This private copy tax has allowed owners of all kinds of storage devices (smartphones, tablets, hard drives, etc.) for several decades to copy the contents of a CD or DVD. An obsolete practice in the streaming era.
A defect in the form of the vote
Since November 2021, this tax had been extended to refurbished products, adding about 9 euros to the price of the device. The amount depended on the storage capacity of the product.
The cancellation of this tax on this type of product was registered by the Council of State due to a formal defect in the voting of the amounts. The scale that supposedly indicated the amounts of each type of device had been voted on by an incomplete commission. Consumer representatives, normally members of the Council, were absent.
No refund provided
Notice to owners of refurbished devices: however, please do not expect a refund of the tax amount. The Council of State has decided to cancel the scale without retroactivity, to avoid too many disputes with the Copie France company, which collected the income from this fee.
The effective cancellation of the private copy fee for refurbished devices will not take effect until February 1, 2023.
Source: BFM TV
