The report suggests that part of the revenue may be used to develop lower-income areas within nations, while the remaining revenue might address global development. The danger in taxing the internet circumvents the very purpose for which this proposal was made. UN wishes to make the internet truly a global phenomenon by decreasing the gap between the various segments of society. His inability to pay the tax would be an additional burden on his use of the e-mail. One cent seems cheap when considered in dollar amounts.
Bangladeshi currency is worth many times less.
One cent in Dhaka can buy you a meal. Even if poorer nations decided not to enforce this tax, while richer nations did, it would still not decrease the inequity. Richer nations would invest the tax into their own economies to generate more computer literacy and the gap, if any, would increase instead of decreasing. Moreover, the internet is just beginning to emerge as a medium of commerce. At this stage it needs to be nurtured.