EU proposing tax on all SMS and email

User Comments: 9

1. May 26, 2006 7:27 PM
   moimit said:
   OMG that would be typical, why does the government have to cash in on everything? soon they'll tax me for going to the toilet and if that happens i'll turn up on the parliament doorsteps and take a hot steaming pooh on right where someone would walk in it. Then i will throw them my 15 cents and turn my nose up in the air and walk away. Boo to the money grabbing polititions who just want more. Not like it is costing them more from 5 years ago so why bother hitting us up for the tax now?
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2. May 26, 2006 8:05 PM
   canadian said:
   Just another hand in your pocket.
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3. May 27, 2006 4:16 AM
   Xavien said:
   All im going to say is V.A.T thats all, no we dont need yet another tax here in the UK, the countries in the EU are the most taxed in the entire world, say NO to SMS taxes!
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4. May 27, 2006 12:20 PM
   Tartaras said:
   We have taxes of sms from begining of mobile phone industry in Lithuania. I pay 3,5 euro cent's per sms and thats normal
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5. May 27, 2006 3:07 PM
   nic said:
   It should help cut down Spam emails/SMS messages.
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6. May 28, 2006 2:47 AM
   spike said:
   [b]Originally posted by nic:[/b][quote]It should help cut down Spam emails/SMS messages.[/quote] Only if the spam comes from within Europe, and most doesn't.
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7. May 28, 2006 2:50 PM
   vigilante said:
   lol, what a rip. It already costs me a ton from Sprint to send messages as it is. Frankly, I don't even want to pay them 4 cents to say "sup, call me" to a friend.moimit, I'm holding you to your promised actions...
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8. May 29, 2006 4:19 AM
   Uranium238 said:
   Errr Tartaras, that's what it costs here to just send an SMS, the EU wants an additional tax (like we had the tax on storage media/devices)But taxing e-mails is just that, absurd. So now all the free providers will make us pay? No way...
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9. May 31, 2006 1:01 AM
   Tartaras said:
   [b]Originally posted by Uranium238:[/b][quote]Errr Tartaras, that's what it costs here to just send an SMS, the EU wants an additional tax (like we had the tax on storage media/devices)But taxing e-mails is just that, absurd. So now all the free providers will make us pay? No way...[/quote]MMM... an additional tax, sorry for misapprehension.
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