Originally Posted by Bobert
Brian Cowen: This is great stuff Brian!
Brian Lenihan: I know Brian. This fellow seems to have limitless ideas on how to raise stealth taxes. We can just watch this thread and see where it takes us!
Brian Cowen: Keep writing you fool! Bobert will solve this recession yolk yet!
Glad to get some response. I use a lot of texts also, so I can fully understand, and that is why I say --- WHY NOT START WITH THEMSELVES and SET AN EXAMPLE. They don't pay for anything from a glass of water to a haircut, a flight, holiday or whatever --- it's the poor already stoney broke taxpayer has to pay for their luxuries.
The underlying principle is a good one though. Make it 5c and you'll bring in €730 million. Unlike income-tax, it doesn't penalise work, and that can only be a good thing.
Wouldn't wish to have you in power, we may as well all give up before we start.
Well see if you have a better idea of measures that should be taken to repair the public-finances. This is but one small element thereof. If you can't even live with that, then it's hard to see what would be acceptable to you before the IMF come to take over the running of the country's economy.
Problem with this is that texts are very price elastic. Most people don't actually pay per text anymore, so a tax on texts, even 1c, would see a huge fall in the number of texts sent.
The tax take would in reality, be very low. Hardly worth it in my opinion. It'd be better to tax mobiles directly.
Well said. Of course, people won't be fooled too easily. These days so many networks have free texts and online etc., so there would be no tax!!! I personally don't pay for a single text while I may use 100-150 a day.
Sending texts as I do, foc from my PC, then 5c x 0.00 =........0.00. Wow. And if I multiply the 0.00 by 1,000,000 I get..........0.00. Amazing.
Did you come up with this by yourself........or did that take 6 months too ?
And if you think that increasing the cost of payable texts won't affect the number sent, and therefore 'revenue' raised.........then you're an even bigger idiot. Or, are you saying the mechanism that the plastic bag tax works on is..........wrong ?
why hasnt anyone just called it like it is.. a tax on children and on pocket money ?
A huge number of under 18's text.. its getting something off them as well as their parents
But how is that gona affect things like:
Pre-paid - spend 20 euro a month get free txts to x number of customers (or x number of free texts!)
Bill phone - spend on whatever priceplan and get x number of free texts (or free texts to x amount of numbers
How are the operators gona jig this? if people are buying bundles or packages of free texts, then how are each of these going to be charged? (coz if you charge the operators, theyll obviously pass it on to consumers!) And people have already raised the issue about free webtxts! (if ya start taxing them, what next - emails?!)
And if phone companies remove such deals as a result of this, then you're actually just decreasing competitiveness in a market people already give out yards about for its lack of competitiveness
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