A U.S. House of Representatives committee hearing Wednesday, May 3, delved into the question of whether consumers will ever have to pay taxes for Internet access. Logging on should not mean getting taxed. Currently, there is no access fee.
Consumers are right to be concerned.
While the Internet industry supports keeping ISPs exempt, the same sentiment does not necessarily hold true for other sectors of the telecommunications industry, Bliley said. The . . . More to the point, these bills would block the FCC from imposing per-minute access charges on consumers when they log on. Miller said that such taxes would raise the costs of Internet use, slow adoption, contribute to a digital divide in society and unfairly discriminate against ISPs. A survivor's guide.