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   Posted by: Ben   in Can't someone else pay the tax?, Duplicate Petitions, That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!

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scrap the plans to tax phone lines to subsidise other peoples broadband.
by Tony Humphreys

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.

We’ve gone over this before – it’s 50p. All that means is you get to yam one less Kit-Kat in your gob every month. Can you really be so hard-off that you can’t make do without that extra £6 a year?

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wezi
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BEN
Just to clarify it is the principle not the cost! 50p may well be just the price of a chocolate bar but if you roll over for this where does it end!!
i personally pay line rental, broadband fees, and call charges! as well as some extras i got stiffed with when i took the contract out. i don’t live out in the sticks but my broadband service is diabolical because of the shoddy state of BT’s equipment they charge me the same as everyone else so why does that not entitle me to the same 24 mbps service they advertise at thier expense not someone elses.
I was living in New Zealand 35 years ago and local calls were free (as they are now) to get that here you have to be locked into a 12 month contract its time BT looked after the people who keep them and deliver what they promised at no extra cost to the people who are already paying through the nose

January 19th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Andrew
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If you’re unhappy with BT’s service, complain to them. If they’re unhelpful, you can go to the Office of Fair Trading or Virgin Media, but none of that remotely impacts on the validity of a broadband subsidy.

January 19th, 2010 at 11:40 am

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