Should We Have Taxed Emails?
 

According to a report in The Register HERE we are reminded of a proposal to tax emails suggested by the UN 5 years ago.

This bit made me laugh....
:rofl: :rofl:

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Well they can feck off!
I already pay tax to use the internet in the form of VAT on the services and equipment I hire from NTL. :mad:

Is it my fault I get so much spam?I have to pay to sort it out.Now if I was to purchase a spam filtering product from my ISP and part of the proceeds went to setting up third world Internet technology well that's a different matter.

I'd be getting summat sensible for my money whilst doing my bit in all directions.

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WTF! whats next Royal e-Mail. 28p stamps on emails please

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This isnt going to happen you know

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Why not?It may not be happening now but in the future?After all there's that daft animal bill being set up. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't put it past anyone not to try it.

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Of course this cant ever happen. Which government would the tax be paid to? The country you live in? The country your sitting in when you send the mail? The country where the mail server is where you send the mail from? What if your not using a mail server to send the email?

This will never happen.

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Shoudn't this be in Humour - it is a joke after all ... :erm:

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Why?Is it an old April Fool Joke that I missed?

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No, it's a joke that anyone in government is daft enough to suggest such a scheme in the first place!

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Yes but when did that ever stop them. ;)

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They have to be good at something.

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On top of that it is all very well creating a tax, but it will not work if you cannot find someone to collect it from. I can't see the ISPs agreeing to pay the tax and bill the users, so it would need to be built in at the user end. That would require something other than SMTP and coding changes to every mail app to be compliant, and then for all internet users to upgrade to an app that charges for sending mail.

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I remember in 1999 when this idea was first mooted. I snorted !

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It wouldnt work.

How would you get broadband to the villages of Africa?

Every time the cable was laid it would be dug up & used for fencing or to make swings etc.


Pc's could be given to them, but with no electricity they could not run them, if they did have it the PC's would get stolen because thier houses are hardly secure.

Not to mention the rebels that would steal them & sell them back to us.

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??? confused by that post.. not that this is going to be introduced by if it was the African's you are referring to wouldn't have to pay the tax.. if they benifited it would in the irigation systems, free food, farming equipment etc not a free PC and broadband

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I think you need to go back to post 1 in this thread.

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I was referring to the revenue bringing IT to the third world as proposed.

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ok now i understand what you mean.. as you said wouldn't really work and water , food and farming supplies are probably more needed out there than a laptop they wouldn't know how to use still that's the EU for you

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They could always use them to dig with, to make houses out of or to sell for bags of corn.

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The money should go to actually feeding the 'third world' and helping the AIDS problem in africa. More Food and Better health before ICT. I understand IT is important but these are more important :D

I wont defend this idea any more though cos i dont wanna argue this point

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There is an internet service in Africa.It is limited to the wealthier countries and then in the large cities of those countries.Of course those that can pay use it.

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I was just reading about the reason why Trevor Bayliss invented the clockwork radio, was to help provide information to remote people for whom a radio was the only way they could get it - specifically to help combat AIDS.

So while food, healthcare, clean water, etc are necessary, technology can help also, especially with information & education - i.e. ideally, imo it would be nice to do both. :)