EU lawmakers consider taxing emails, SMS messages | Internet | Reuters.co.uk
> BRUSSELS (Reuters) – 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.
> Lamassoure, a member of Jacques Chirac’s UMP party, is proposing to add a tax of around 1.5 cents on text or SMS messages and a 0.00001 cent levy on every email sent.
And they’d plan on collecting this email tax how? If I’ve got my own email server, it connects directly to other email servers, and I’ll never allow them to install a patched email server on my own machine. If I host an email server outside of the EU, how are they to block my connections to it? Smells fishy..
