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::BAD news for text addicts!

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Inquirer News Service's Gil C. Cabacungan Jr. reported that Malacañang Palace mulls 20% tax for every text message:

  • Malacañang will have its way in Congress, mobile phone subscribers will have to pay up to 20 centavos for every text message sent.
  • The government hopes to generate at least P14 billion in additional revenues annually.
  • Strong lobby expected, the proposed tax on text messages and indexation of sin taxes form the core of the government's proposed tax reform program
  • A drastic measure to solve the government's gaping budget deficit, to reach P197.8 billion this year.
  • At present, 10-percent value-added tax on cellular phone cards was already a way of taxing text messaging, if approved, it would resulted to double taxation.

Read complete details at Inq7.net.


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