EU to tax e-mail, text messages? | Tech News on ZDNet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6077464.html?tag=zdnn.alert

European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on e-mails  
and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in  
the future.
A European Parliament working group is reviewing the idea, tabled by  
Alain Lamassoure, a prominent French MEP and member of the center- 
right European People's Party, the assembly's largest group.
Lamassoure, a member of Jacques Chirac's UMP party, is proposing to  
add a tax of about 1.5 cents on text or SMS messages and a 0.00001  
cent levy on every e-mail sent.

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