£6 Broadband Tax to be brought in before election RSS

digitalbritainThe controversial ‘broadband tax’ which would cost subscribers an extra 50p a month – or £6 a year – looks set to be made law before the election is due to be called next year.

Treasury Minister Stephen Timms said today at a British Computer Society debate that “My aim is that we should legislate for that this side of a general election.” He added that the new tax would raise £150m to £175m a year, which would be used to develop next-gen broadband networks.

Developments could see 21st Century broadband speeds being taken into rural areas and other similar broadband ‘not spots’ where speeds of 1Mbps are scarce.

Do you live in a broadband not spot? Do you think this broadband tax will help, or do you think that it’s a waste of money? Are the investments made by BT and Virgin Media in next-gen broadband enough? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

Source: [Guardian]

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2 Comments »Posted by Tom on September 23rd 2009 in BT Broadband, Digital Britain, Next Gen Broadband, Virgin Media



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2 Responses to “£6 Broadband Tax to be brought in before election”

  1. james said on 25 Sep 2009 at 8:34 pm #

    This tax on broadband, will be just like the petrol tax, every budget you will see an extra few pence here and a few there, which will ultimately be past on to the consumer by the companies who have to cover the extra cost by being a broadband user,thus an increase in the cost of living, and as more people get to use this service will make this a nice little unseen urner for the westminster boys club.

  2. Richard Rzymski said on 30 Sep 2009 at 9:37 am #

    I hear also that we are now going to be taxed for breathing


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