European Union considering Tax on Email Messages and SMS Text Messages

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European Union considering Tax on Email Messages and SMS Text Messages

05-27-2006, 10:20 AM,

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European Union considering Tax on Email Messages and SMS Text Messages

The EU is considering a tax on email messages and SMS messages. :nbiteme: EU!

Quote:European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on emails and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in the future.

A European Parliament working group is reviewing the idea, tabled by Alain Lamassoure, a prominent French MEP and member of the centre-right European People's Party, the assembly's largest group.

Lamassoure, a member of Jacques Chirac's UMP party, is proposing to add a tax of around 1.5 cents on text or SMS messages and a 0.00001 cent levy on every email sent...

full article: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArti...ternetNews&storyID=2006-05-26T121239Z_01_L26740888_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-TELECOMS-EU-FUNDING.XML

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