50 Pence Telephone “Tax” for superfast broadband – What are they on?
September 25, 2009
Tags: Broadband, Comment, Government, News, Telecommunications
As reported in various parts of the UK media, Stephen Timms, a minister in the Gordon Brown government has proposed a 50 pence per month levy, or tax in the real world, on all fixed telephone lines, to help pay for “superfast broadband”. The tax would raise approximately £175 million each year. Working on that basis even people who do not have, perhaps never will have broadband will have to pay up! I thought that modern thinking was along the lines that any tax should be fair on those affected. Oh dear – sorry I forgot, they never ring fence money, so this is just more money to help prop up our severely ailing public finances.
Apologies for the rant!