Reuters reports that European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on emails 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 centre-right European People's Party, the assembly's largest group.
Personally I doubt the idea will get very far. MEPs I know tell me that such working groups discuss lots of ideas that are then rejected in favour of more practical and beneficial proposals. In fact these discussions are the source of many of the straight banana' type Euro-scare stories that appear in popular British newspapers.
thats the dumbes idea i have heard yet because they have problem's that they have to get past such as the privercey act and also they woud have to take away part of the law in wich case they cant do. and they are forgeting that comapneys provide the service for free and so thats up to them to decide on wether they should go through and charge tax on top of the normal price of thw accounts. And on top of that its a lame and stupid idea.
Posted by: SVC | July 30, 2006 at 11:28 PM