The broadband tax that has been proposed in the Digital Britain report by Lord Carter, to be introduced to every fixed phone line in the UK may not get introduced.
The 50p per month/£6 per year levy is set to be put onto every fixed telephone line in the UK to help fund the roll out of next generation broadband (fibre broadband) services in the UK, the fees were set to raise around £150m a year.
The reason there is doubt as to if the levy will actually come to fruition is because the current communications minister who replaced Lord Carter, Stephen Timms, has said:
“If the question is, is the levy definitely going to be legislated for this side of the election, I can’t say for sure”
With the general election being next year and because the Conservatives who are against the levy are the favourites to replace Labour in government we could find that if the legislation for this has not gone through before the general election then it could well be dropped altogether.