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Digital Britain 50p tax 'to be law' by next election
Blog Comment So now, BT who squandered their huge profits over the past years gets a handout from the long-suffering customers in order that they can do what they should have been doing all along - maintaining a viable modern infrastucture.
[September 24, 2009, 21:41]
Digital Britain 50p tax 'to be law' by next election
Blog Comment It should be a tax on broadband connections, or on the traffic levels, 10p per gig for example. I still think this is fundamentally immoral. My Grandmother hasn't got broadband and doesn't want broadband.
[September 24, 2009, 17:50]
Digital Britain 50p tax 'to be law' by next election
Blog Comment If broadband benefits the economy as a whole, then everyone benefits, regardless of whether they use the internet or not.
[September 24, 2009, 19:22]
Digital Britain 50p tax 'to be law' by next election
Blog Comment Another labour stealth tax that will never get used for what they state it will. This country has been virtually brought to its knees by labour, its taxes and incompetence. They probably look in to taxing people with computers next.
[September 24, 2009, 19:43]
Digital Britain 50p tax 'to be law' by next election
Blog Comment If it is to benefit all, then it should be part of general income tax. As a separate tax, it can then be moved up. Having created the principal of an additional stand alone tax, what next? how about 50p on every car tax for funding electric vehicle...
[September 28, 2009, 13:47]
Digital Britain 50p tax 'to be law' by next election
Blog Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, has reiterated the government's intention to press ahead with a £6-a-year tax that will pay for the rollout of next-generation broadband in the UK. The levy on telephone lines - 50p a month… will be...
[September 24, 2009, 15:29]
Shout99 sells IR35 guidance
News IT contractors who are still unsure how the IR35 tax affects them are being offered a pack which aims to explain the new law, and even suggest how a self-employed worker could use IR35 to their advantage.
[June 29, 2001, 16:39]
Businesses 'paying patent tax' to Microsoft
News Businesses are paying a "patent tax" to Microsoft of $21.50 (£10.74) per user, according to the Software Freedom Law Center. You're paying a hidden tax of well over $20 that Microsoft has had to pay to other patent holders," said the SFLC in a...
[April 20, 2007, 16:00]
'Terrorist' traffic data to be used against minor criminals
News The Home Office has confirmed that new powers allowing the collection of electronic communications data for anti-terrorist investigations will also be used to provide law enforcement officers with intelligence on other criminals, such as tax evaders.
[November 7, 2001, 12:22]
VoIP firms plead to keep phone tax exemption
News In a six-page letter to the IRS sent late on Wednesday, the companies stressed that fledgling voice over IP (VoIP) services should not be subject to the excise tax that President William McKinley signed into law in 1898.
[September 30, 2004, 16:55]
HMRC signs Airwave deal in fight against fraud
News HMRC's law-enforcement arm investigates and detects crimes involving tax fraud, smuggling and related issues, providing the intelligence needed for the prosecution of individuals in breach of UK law with regards to tax and duties.
[February 14, 2008, 7:47]
Contractors lose IR35 appeal
News The Court of Appeal ruled on Friday morning that IR35, the controversial tax on self-employed contractors, is not illegal, rejecting claims from the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) that the legislation broke European law.
[December 21, 2001, 10:55]
IR35 tax battle hits the courts
News In the judicial review, which could run until this Thursday, the PCG will argue that IR35 violates European law because it is in effect a tax break for big business. The conflict over the government's controversial IR35 tax hit the High Court on...
[March 13, 2001, 11:42]
News Roundup: IR35 in the High Court
News Tue, 27 Mar IT contractors will hear in a week whether they have won their fight to overturn the government's controversial tax law Mon, 02 Apr IR35 will stay but Inland Revenue 'completely discredited' by ruling, claims the group that brought the...
[March 16, 2001, 10:50]
US politicians oppose tax on net access
News At issue is the scheduled expiration on 1 November of a law, initially enacted in 1998, that says local US governments generally cannot tax internet access, including DSL (digital subscriber line), cable modem and BlackBerry-type wireless...
[May 23, 2007, 11:08]
PCG: New case law will defeat IR35
News The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has predicted that it can still save its members from the IR35 tax, despite Friday's defeat at the Court of Appeal. According to the PCG, contract workers could flee UK companies by the thousands if IR35 is...
[December 21, 2001, 13:33]
US aims to bring down China's regulatory wall
News US trade representative Robert Zoellick has issued a statement calling for China to change its tax policy and repeal the WAPI law, and US secretary of commerce Donald Evans and secretary of state Colin Powell also sent a letter to Chinese vice...
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
Panama rejigs VoIP tax
News Panama is set to introduce a tax that treats traditional and Internet phone calls the same way, a "technology agnostic" regulation that has had a mixed welcome from broadband phone providers. Last week, lawmakers in the Central American country...
[January 21, 2004, 15:20]
Software piracy slows growth, says industry group
News The group, an antipiracy organisation with members including Microsoft, Adobe Systems, and Cisco Systems, is planning to release a study on Wednesday suggesting that increasing copy protections could generate jobs and tax revenue.
[April 2, 2003, 12:00]
Lord criticises proposed data-sharing law
Blog For example, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) could share tax information with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the government has said in an explanatory note to the Bill. There is no restriction on purpose of the sharing so for...
[February 17, 2009, 16:24]
