Stephen Timms, the minister charged with overseeing Britain's "digital revolution," pledged yesterday to pass the £6-a-year broadband tax into law "before the general election," despite opposition from the Conservatives.
Mr Timms, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and minister for Digital Britain, said: "We want to make high speed networks nationally available. The next-generation fund will help that and we will legislate for it this side of a general election."
The Government announced in June that it would tax each household with a landline telephone 50p per month. The levy would be used to fund ambitious plans to bring super-fast broadband to 90 per cent of the country by 2017.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/1636-broadband-tax-will-be-law-before-next-election-1792266.html
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