New Tax Proposal Prediction

New Tax Proposal Prediction

As soon as some low-level Dem staffer reads this article and figures out that there's money to be taxed here, plans will start to be laid. In a few years, when this has taken off and started producing large revenue streams for TimeWarner et al., the Dems will propose a tax on VoIP. This won't happen until after 2008 (or, heavens forfend, 2004) when either the Dems have the White House back or they figure they just can't wait anymore to get their hands on this money.

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Vonage is able to undercut traditional telecoms services partly because its service piggybacks on existing broadband internet connections, and because internet telephony is free from the regulations and fees that push up the price of traditional telephony.