Premier Silvio Berlusconi faced new conflict-of-interest accusations Monday after his government doubled the value-added tax applied to satellite subscription-based television Sky Italia, owned by media rival Rupert Murdoch.
Critics charged the move was aimed at hurting the competition to the Mediaset broadcast empire founded by Berlusconi and run by his children. Mediaset and the state RAI television control 90 percent of free-to-air television channels in Italy.
"This is a move that mostly affects one of Berlusconi's main competitors," the leader of Italy's left, Walter Veltroni was quoted by Italian news agencies ANSA and Apcom as saying. …
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