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1c tax on texts.

  • 05-07-2013 08:18PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭


    I'm shure it would raise about €14bn for the Irish German economy and keep uncle fester out of trouble with the ECB.

    Could ratchet it up a notch and put 2c charge for downloading candy crush? Has to be €10bn to be made out of that, no?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    I couldn't afford it.
    Ran out of free texts there a couple of weeks ago and spent 42 euro credit in the space of 2 days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,167 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    squod wrote: »
    I'm shure it would raise about €14bn for the Irish German economy and keep uncle fester out of trouble with the ECB.

    Could ratchet it up a notch and put 2c charge for downloading candy crush? Has to be €10bn to be made out of that, no?

    A 2c charge on downloading a game will yield a return of 10b in a population of 4.5 million....I'm gonna go with no!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Do the green party do anything that doesnt involve thinking of a stupid tax? How can they even come up with an excuse for that? Each text sent is taking money away from eircom so we want the money!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    in fairness its not like its a 20c rise in bus fares


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Put 10c tax onto all TD's lies.

    We'd be feckin' loaded!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    Do the green party do anything that doesnt involve thinking of a stupid tax? How can they even come up with an excuse for that? Each text sent is taking money away from eircom so we want the money!

    Ah now, in fairness they do.
    Stopping dodgy transfers between Ireland and Bermuda should improve our tax take and international reputation.

    Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan said today: "The Government should stop defending some of the worst corporate tax loopholes at the G8 meeting in Fermanagh next week. Their approach to date has been embarrassing and will not work.

    All the dodgy transfers between Ireland and Germany, they're grand like. Don't touch them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    IM0 wrote: »
    in fairness its not like its a 20c rise in bus fares


    Yeah but most people only use the bus twice a day. Far more texts are sent im sure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Yeah but most people only use the bus twice a day. Far more texts are sent im sure.

    fairly sure most people dont text 40 times a day either ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,571 ✭✭✭NinjaTruncs


    Do the greens still exist?

    And that article is 4 years old.

    4.3kWp South facing PV System. South Dublin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I've always thought that this wasn't a terrible idea for a 'tax'. Bit late to be thinking about implementing it now though, with more and more people using Viber and the likes instead of SMS.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    squod wrote: »
    Ah now, in fairness they do.



    All the dodgy transfers between Ireland and Germany, they're grand like. Don't touch them.

    Thats an improvement, its only an opinion about taxes. They must be fun running up to an election.

    "How will you get us out of this recession?"
    Tax

    "A new tax or increase in taxes?"
    Tax

    "You want to tax tax?"
    ....Yes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    SV wrote: »
    I couldn't afford it.
    Ran out of free texts there a couple of weeks ago and spent 42 euro credit in the space of 2 days.

    Have you heard of whatsapp?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    SV wrote: »
    I couldn't afford it.
    Ran out of free texts there a couple of weeks ago and spent 42 euro credit in the space of 2 days.

    Whatsapp? Viber? every network does plans with unlimited texts now as well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    kjl wrote: »
    Have you heard of whatsapp?
    krudler wrote: »
    Whatsapp? Viber? every network does plans with unlimited texts now as well

    I don't have a smartphone so viber and whatsapp are no good to me.

    yes, the plan I was on was unlimited texts, they run out at the end of the month and I hadn't bought more credit yet so didn't have free texts anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    SV wrote: »
    I don't have a smartphone so viber and whatsapp are no good to me.

    yes, the plan I was on was unlimited texts, they run out at the end of the month and I hadn't bought more credit yet so didn't have free texts anymore.

    Write a letter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    SV wrote: »
    I don't have a smartphone so viber and whatsapp are no good to me.

    yes, the plan I was on was unlimited texts, they run out at the end of the month and I hadn't bought more credit yet so didn't have free texts anymore.

    :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Knine


    Eh no I already pay tax on my phone bill.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Two problems :

    1) A huge volume of texts are not charged for individually. People have text bundles, inclusive allowances, free texts to people on the and network etc etc

    2) the volume of texts would decrease as people moved to instant messaging services like iMessage, Google HangOuts, Viber, WhatsApp etc etc

    And we already pay 23% VAT on our texts and the mobile operators pay corporation tax, prsi, and various huge sums to the state to licence spectrum (radio frequencies) to run their services all of which end up passed on in our bills.

    They can feck off with their stupid, regressive taxes!

    I'd just call this proposal a 'regressive taxation on communication services to service bankers' benevolent fund'

    These kinds of taxes are regressive too and but poorer people hardest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    IM0 wrote: »
    fairly sure most people dont text 40 times a day either ;)


    Lol I thought so too but some younger people really opened my eyes on how,many texts they send! Though i will reckon the numbers should decline now most everyone in on the internet and the like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭marketty


    A tax on posts would tidy this place up a lot


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Just add 1c to every product purchased, every text sent, every service used, every flight purchased ad infinitum. Simple.

    It gets rid of things being .99c


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    kneemos wrote: »
    Write a letter.
    and the price of stamps? ya mad?
    wexie wrote: »
    :confused:
    For the month they're unlimited.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    I'd say I send about 5 texts a week. But about 5000 whatsapp messages/pictures a week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Texts? Anybody still sending texts deserves to be taxed. The tax should be 20 cent minus the number of vowels used.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    humbert wrote: »
    Texts? Anybody still sending texts deserves to be taxed. The tax should be 20 cent minus the number of vowels used.

    you do realise that 'txtspk' is not neccesary to actually send a text and I'd the say most adults don't use it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    SV wrote: »
    you do realise that 'txtspk' is not neccesary to actually send a text and I'd the say most adults don't use it?

    Can you use capital letters too?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    humbert wrote: »
    Can you use capital letters too?

    when I feel that they're neccesary, yes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    Just add 1c to every product purchased, every text sent, every service used, every flight purchased ad infinitum. Simple.

    It gets rid of things being .99c

    Add a euro to very product purchased. Create massive number of jobs internships in the '€3 shop' industry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    squod wrote: »
    I'm shure it would raise about €14bn for the Irish German economy and keep uncle fester out of trouble with the ECB.

    Could ratchet it up a notch and put 2c charge for downloading candy crush? Has to be €10bn to be made out of that, no?

    If the OP hadn't have been so childishly immature in blaming the people of Germany for our excesses then I would probably agree that this would be a relativley painless way of raising badly needed revenue.


    Oh I forgot the Germans made us all by BMW;s and second homes in Spain,Hungary, and Montenegro....thats right its all their fault!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    This keeps happening, and it really depresses me.

    In our increasingly digital world, there are certain distinctions that don't make sense. *What* is a text message? No seriously. When everyone has a smart-phone with a 10gb data plan and wiFi available all over.

    How is a 'text message' different from any other data your cell phone sends?

    Fundamentally, it isn't. You can emulate a text message, trivially, with countless other applications.

    When you artificially impose a cost on doing things, people will very quickly stop doing it, when there is a logically equivalent alternative. By the time a tax like this was implemented, the number of people without alternatives to text messaging would be rapidly approaching zero.

    Hell, I could write an app that sends text messages via picture mail. Tax law circumvented.


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