By ARNOLD PADILLA
The latest incarnation of the text tax comes in the context of an administration under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to widen its revenue base. It was the IMF that first openly pushed the text tax idea in 2002 to address the government’s burgeoning budget deficit.
Consumer group TXTPower today flatly rejected calls by Malacanang to “revise” the text tax bill approved by the House committee on ways and means, demanding no less than the complete scrapping of the proposed revenue measure. “The correct and moral position is to junk the text tax. At a time of crisis, the least the…
Consumer group TXTPower today called on consumers to prepare for a taxpayers’ revolt over a new tax to be imposed on text messaging and warned reelectionists in Congress they will pay dearly for making life even harder amid the worldwide economic crisis. “To rebel against this new tax is justified,” said TXTPower president Anthony Ian…