Most of us hate taxes. You have to pay them day after day, and-atleast as an Austrian-end up feeding loads of lazy state employees which live off their madmen-hard-working comrades.
Anyways, US readers should celebrate, as according to CNET, the tax on long-distrance calls is beeing axed soon. In fact, you may even get some cash back because of this on your 2006 tax return.
On the other hand, the EU is planning to tax SMS and email. Lamassoure, a member of Jacques Chirac’s UMP party, is proposing to add a tax of around 1.5 cents on each SMS message and a 0.00001 cent tax on every email sent.
If you ask me, this is very dangerous and a very bad idea. This move will put out many small email providers, and will make offering free email accounts impossible(as someone needs to pay the taxes). Reuters has the full details.
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