Levy for broadband to hit internet users

The government has announced that it will be implementing a £6-a-year broadband tax on users of such internet services before the next general election.

Stephen Timms, the treasury minister, explained that tax, which works out at 50p-a-month, will be implemented even though it has generated opposition from the Conservative Party, in a move which may affect all users of business management software.

He continued: "We want to make high speed networks nationally available. The next-generation fund will help that and we will legislate for it this side of a general election."

The levy is to be used to fund the government's ambitious plans to bring super-fast broadband to nine out of ten homes in the UK by 2017.

However, Michael Phillips, the product director of Broadbandchoices.co.uk, said the tax would unlikely affect the total cost of the "mammoth undertaking" that is the plan, stating that the tax is simply seen as unpopular.

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