Should We Have Taxed Emails?
15-07-2004, 09:16
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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....
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Our experts predict that were such a tax introduced today, then the revenue generated by penis enlargement spam emails alone would be enough to buy a laptop for every child in the developing world
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15-07-2004, 09:43
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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. 
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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15-07-2004, 10:11
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
WTF! whats next Royal e-Mail. 28p stamps on emails please
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15-07-2004, 10:20
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
This isnt going to happen you know
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15-07-2004, 10:24
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by Damien
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. 
I wouldn't put it past anyone not to try it.
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15-07-2004, 10:38
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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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15-07-2004, 10:39
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
Shoudn't this be in Humour - it is a joke after all ... 
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15-07-2004, 10:48
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by Paul M
Shoudn't this be in Humour - it is a joke after all ... |
Why?Is it an old April Fool Joke that I missed?
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15-07-2004, 12:54
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
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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15-07-2004, 13:06
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by Graham
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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15-07-2004, 13:08
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by Graham
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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They have to be good at something.
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15-07-2004, 13:26
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by gary_580
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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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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15-07-2004, 14:37
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
I remember in 1999 when this idea was first mooted. I snorted !
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15-07-2004, 15:07
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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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15-07-2004, 15:24
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Re: Should We Have Taxed Emails?
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Originally Posted by zoombini
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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