Waive the GST/HST on Broadband and Wireless Data
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Submitted by
WirelessNorth 2010–07–09 07:54:11
EDT
Theme: Digital Infrastructure
Idea Status: +5 | Total Votes: 11 | Comments: 0
Go ahead tax cigarettes, tax all non–essential goods and services, tax carbon if you want to, but waive taxes for connectivity.
As we start to consider connectivity as an essential service with many positive externalities we should reduce the cost of adoption as much as possible for individuals, families and businesses.
By all means tax the services that run on the pipes like voice minutes, cable packages or ecommerce, but tax–exempt the pipe itself. Zero–rate ISP fees, zero–rate data packages for mobile devices.
In the digital economy basic connectivity is no longer a luxury item essential service.
We don't tax bread, milk and vegetables, we don't tax basic financial services, we should not tax broadband.
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