Really dumb French email tax proposal
French conservative MEP Alain Lamassoure wants the budget-strapped EU to tax sms and email:
For email, the rate could be as little as €0.00001. “This is peanuts, but given the billions of transactions every day, this could still raise an immense income.”
Ironport’s data suggests that global email volume for 2006 will be in excess of 1000B messages. If we assume the EU’s share of this to be roughly proportional to it’s share of global GDP (receding from 18%), then Mr Lamassoure’s tax on email might raise in the region of €2M pa, excluding admin costs, which, given the EU’s record, would certainly exceed revenues. Before translation starts, each MEP costs approaching €2.5M, suggesting that getting rid of Mr Lamassoure might be smarter. With friends like this, why fear Iran?
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May 21st 2006 10:36
[...] “Really dumb French email tax proposal” [...]
May 27th 2006 16:05
taxes is something u put on oil and stuff.. emails.. cmon.. first its good for the economy to boost information, second .. what will it cost to monitor the traffic and put out the charges?.. making an anonymous emailaccount outside EU is.. ehm.. not even a challenge
May 29th 2006 08:01
If it moves, tax it
If it still moves, regulate it
If it stops moving, subsidize it.
May 30th 2006 12:46
REALLY IDIOTIC SUGGESTION INDEED..