Statement: Ines Uusman, 1996, IT minister responsible.
– The Internet is a fly that might blow past. I do not think people ultimately will want to spend as much time, it actually takes to surf the web.
In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet 1996 Uusmann spoke out about the Internet and new electronic communication routes. She has often been quoted in the form ”The internet is just a fly.”, However, this was, According to Uusmann himself, Not the words she uttered.. Her point was that the aimless browsing of the Internet would cease.
In an interview in February 2016 she admits that she underestimated the potential of the Internet and says that the wording was pointed but not completely unreasonable in relation to what she had said.
– It has become a walking legend, comments Uusmann but adds:
– My colleagues were so upset because it was misquoted., But it wasn't like that..
Uusmann's original reasoning can be found in the following quote:
"I don't dare to have a very firm opinion, but I don't think people will want to spend that much time in the long run., that it actually takes, "Surfing the net"
Introduction
During Ines Uusmann's last year as minister, home PC reform, A million people got their first computer at home..[3] Uusmann was the one who convinced the Ministry of Finance of the. The reform meant that between 1998 And the end of 2001 Delivered 850 000 personal computers for Swedish homes. 71 percent of all Swedes who took part in the reform felt that they got increased digital skills from having a computer at home. Uusmann himself has stated that the reform meant a lot to the broad layers of Sweden's population who had no academic education..
Abolition
The rules were reviewed by the State Treasury 2005 on behalf of the Persson Government Some way into the 2000s, sales had fallen sharply. In a survey 2005 Stated 9 of 10 with subsidized home PC that they would have acquired computer even without the subsidy, and a majority would rather support broadband connectivity. However, just before the home PC system was abolished, sales.
The Conservatives argued in a budget motion 2005 that the reform had become obsolete and proposed to spend money instead on unemployment measures.
Government Reinfeldt introduced preferential taxation of the loan of home PC for years 2007 with the benefit value SEK 2,400 and for years 2008 with SEK 4,800. From 2009 the benefit is taxed at market value.
Imagine how things are swinging in politics.
- Subsidization of computers 1998-2001, Buy a computer with untaxed money, that is, pay with the gross salary and then pay tax on the rest of your income.
- Remove the subsidy 2005.
- 2007 it will be the other way around, benefit value 2 400 kr, In other words, taxation on 2400 sek on salary you did not receive for buying a computer with gross salary that is now seen as salary benefit. There will also be tax for the employer with employer's contribution on the salary benefit.
- 2008 becomes the salary benefit 4 800 kr.
- 2009 It's like buying a computer with a net salary., double-taxed money. No one wants to buy a computer through work..