June 2, 2006
No EU tax for SMS and email
Some good news! MEP Alain Lamassoure is not campaigning for a tax on SMS and email messages to fund the European Union. Vnunet reports.
"My remarks have been interpreted as a proposal to tax SMS and emails to the benefit of the European budget," Lamassoure said in an email to vnunet.com.
"I insist that these ideas are not on the table for our European work and I have no intention of putting them on the table. Internet users who felt affected by the press coverage can be reassured."
"Lamassoure explained that his job in the European Parliament is to propose reforms for the financing of the Community budget, and that this issue fell to the member states since the EU does not have the power to raise tax".
Previous posts and links related to this subject:
-- French MEP suggests EU tax on SMS and emails
Actions in France against high prices of SMS and Telecoms collusion:
-- French consumer group targets mobile phone companies
-- French mobile phone firms fined
-- French consumer association calls for SMS boycott over prices
-- Consumer Advocate Group in France fights to bring down price of SMS
Related attempts to tax SMS elsewhere:
Italy
-- Italy 'text tax' sparks outrage
-- Mobile strike in Italy - July 15
Philippines
-- Palace clears up text tax confusion
-- 'Text tax' sparks cyber-protest in Philippines
-- Philippine gov't revives plan to tax text messaging
-- President Arroyo open to text tax
-- Philippine Senators to oppose texting tax
-- Have mercy on the people!" said the archbishop
-- Philippine leader backs away from SMS tax after popular criticism
Switzerland
-- No to Proposal to Tax SMS in Switzerland
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