These UN sanctioned taxes first gained momentum in 2008, when experts where tasked with researching methods of raising funds.  Even then opponents questioned whether the WHO should be the first to initiate any global taxes.  These taxes were to include “digital or bit” tax on Internet access or activity, as well as taxes on online bill paying, financial transactions, and airline tickets, all of which were deemed “pretty sketchy.”  Where the internet is supposed to simplify life, adding these taxes will only add further headaches to distraught consumers.

 

While reading all this, you might get a sense like you’ve seen it recently.  The Internet tax is just another of the many Hydra heads in the FCC’s campaign to take over and tax the internet.  Hopefully this recent fallout in the UN will show the FCC that maybe the answer their problems doesn’t lie in more taxes and regulation.