Philippine Congress Backs Off From Text Tax

With elections for Congress coming up in May 2010, the Committee on Ways and Means of the Philippine Congress is backing off from a plan to tax text messages. Groups opposed to the bill have threatened to vote against congressmen who would vote for the text tax. All Headline News reports.

The proposed text tax is 0.1 cent for every text message. The measure could have raised $430 to $775 million based on an average 10 SMS sent per day by 70 million Filipinos using prepaid subscription. The Philippines is considered the texting capital of the world.

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Relatled:

-- SPECIAL REPORT: Efforts to pass a law taxing text messages in the Philippines are not new

-- Philippines. Scientist computes the real cost of a text message

-- Philippines. House retreats from text-tax bill

-- Philippines. SMS is tax goldmine

-- Philippines. "No to Text Tax!" campaign

-- Online campaign launched vs. text tax in the Philippines

-- Philippines. House body OKs tax on text messages

-- Related attempts to tax SMS around the world

emily | 8:38 AM | SMS and Politics |
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