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Re: internet tax ?

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From: John Clark
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <19970208185841952620@tachyon.demon.co.uk>, Frank Charlton
<frank@SPAMBLOCK_REMOVE_TO_REPLYtachyon.co.uk> writes
>Trooper <philip@bengio.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I certainly hope not. I can't see it happening - personally, I'd stop
>using the net before I paid anything else into the Government's coffers
>- as if the exorbitant phone charges from BT aren't bad enough?
>
>ATB, Frank.
>
Don't you believe it! They manage to run a tax on a tax - eg: VAT on
fuel tax. When you buy petrol, for the �10.00 you spend you get �1.78
worth of petrol, the rest is tax.

Hope I'm wrong.
-- 
John Clark
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Date: 1997/02/09
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