Mexico Is Considering Slapping An Eight Percent Tax On Violent Video Games

Violent video games person recovered themselves successful nan crosshairs of politicians yet again, but this clip pinch Mexico's government. Earlier this week, Mexico's Chamber of Deputies approved a broad financial package that includes an 8 percent taxation connected video games pinch mature content. As first reported by Insider Gaming, nan projected taxation covers games that person a C aliases D standing nether Mexico's video crippled property classification system, which is akin to ESRB successful nan US. The C standing is for players who are astatine slightest 18 years aged and allows for utmost violence, bloodshed and mean schematic intersexual content, while nan D standing is reserved for adults only and allows for prolonged scenes that see akin content.

The projected rule was first introduced successful September, erstwhile nan country's Treasury Department claimed that "recent studies person recovered a narration betwixt nan usage of convulsive video games and higher levels of aggression among adolescents, arsenic good arsenic antagonistic societal and psychological effects specified arsenic isolation and anxiety." The study cited a study from 2012 successful a footnote, which besides observed immoderate affirmative associations pinch video games, including centrifugal learning and building resilience.

The existent mentation of nan connection that's been approved by nan Chamber of Deputies would use to integer and beingness copies of affected games, arsenic good arsenic immoderate in-game purchases aliases microtransactions. The connection still has to spell done Mexico's different legislature chamber, nan Senate, wherever it will beryllium debated earlier a November 15 deadline to taxable a fund proposal.