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EU Lawmakers Consider Taxing Emails, SMS Messages

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05-31-2006, 01:00 AM

Jerry Raia Editor Emeritus Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 6,305		EU Lawmakers Consider Taxing Emails, SMS Messages http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-05-26T121239Z_01_L26740888_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-TELECOMS-EU-FUNDING.XML "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." This idea has of course floated around in the States too. I doubt it will ever see the light of day in the US but I'm not so sure about the EU. I think it is a horrible idea of course. What do you think?

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