E-mails and messages are also taxed

The European Union (EU) is considering a project to collect e-mail and mobile phone messages to increase the support budget for 25 of its member countries in the future.

Alain Lamassoure, a powerful member of the European Parliament and a UMP ruling party in France, proposed the idea of ​​adding 1.5 cents for each SMS and 0.00001 cents / e-mail. " This amount is very small, but considering the billions of messages sent every day, it will contribute to a big source of income ."

According to Lamassoure, collecting taxes on e-mails sent around the world is a good idea, both simple and effective in exploiting profits from new technologies.

Currently, the budget of the European Union is mainly through import duties, value-added taxes and direct contributions from member countries. However, after a year of discussion on the financial structure, in December 2005, the EU decided to change the method of increasing the budget with a number of new projects, which may start from 2008 - 2009.

TN