Phone Line Tax petition

[nunnyrose]

50p tax per telephone line! I've just received an email for this, another stealth tax - sign the petition as below

 

Petition to: scrap the plans to tax phone lines to subsidise other peoples broadband. | Number10.gov.uk

[MARTIN3030]

Will move this to telecoms forums.

[bottomburp]

The actual petition says: "I request that the Government scraps any plans to add 50p a month tax to phone lines to subsidise further broadband roll out. It is wholly unfair to tax my phone line to pay for someone else's broadband, and it is as simple as that. It is recognised that rural areas do suffer a slower connection and higher costs, but they have fantastic views, clean air and a safer environment - its a choice people have to live in the country - and a decision they take. Please see sense, and stop this poll tax - broadband is not a vital service."

 

I assume this city-dweller thinks than people living in the country haven't subsidised his/her fibre optic cable... and quite a few people live in isolated rural areas because that's the only place they can afford to live...as for broadband not being vital - it is possibly even more useful in the country than in the city.

[hightail]

What a shame it is worded in such a way. I live in a rural area which will not see any benefit for many years, if at all. I too object to the tax but can hardly sign this.