UK Government to introduce a BroadBand tax

September 24, 2009

Reported by the BBC – Stephen Timms the minister for Digital Britain believes this very controversial tax will be in effect before the next election. This £175m a year fund will be raised to fund high speed networks.  Timms said the tax will be presented to parliament as part of the Finance Bill. How can a private sector service be publicly funded? Did the government step-in to provide telephone access to all? I’m off to look into this a bit more..

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