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Government should Monitor the internet and abhor further Taxation
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To ask the government to begin to collect tax for the use of the internet is like asking the same government to begin to take tax from individual for the volume of air/oxygen one breath per second. I will like to dismiss this motion as the greatest joke and most callous motion of this century. It is right to think of utilizing the population index of the internet, but in the actual sense of it, it is like charging oneself for eating food on your own table. Every activity of today world order is on the internet. All of us are hook up to the internet and come to think of the importance of this avatar in the business world one will need to think twice before subscribing to this odious opinion. The government should monitor the use of the internet but should not collect additional charges for use from individual in whatever disguise. Already citizens are paying for such directly or indirectly via the ISP Providers.


Every user of the internet usually pays for it directly or indirectly, asking the government to collect tax from users is a duplication of effect and an outright infringement of the fundamental right of the citizens. The economic matrix of the day will not get any better for the revenue generated from such in inhuman taxation. There are many things that the government is already taking taxes of various magnitudes and significance. The internet is here to oil the global economy from multifaceted frontier. The internet presently accounts for the record breaking efficiency of both the government and the private entities. The advent of internet has to a large extent affected every aspect of man’s activity in this ontological void-planet earth. It literally collapsed the physical boundaries that ones divided us apart into various cultural, socio-political and racial backgrounds. To attempt collecting tax for any service of the internet after charges have been taking directly or indirectly will be greatest undoing of our time.


I will rather suggest here that a slight increase be charge ISP Providers to augment for the revenue generated from other sectors of the global economy. More so, this need be done in such a way that the final consumers of the internet services will not face hiccups of some sort on the attempt to meet up financially. It is also expedient now for the government to rather get more attuned on the internet general governance in order to foster expected security of its users as new dimension of crime is setting in gradually. The revolution of the internet cuts across various paradigms of human affairs and as such it will not be out of place to suggest that some miscreant will be out to devise ways to take undue advantage of the unsuspecting teeming users of the internet. It should be cleverly stated that securities of the internet have much more impact on the world economy than securing the fiat to tax individual using the internet. It is crystal clear to everybody and must not be compromise for any reason.


Furthermore, lets not forget that one of the major setback of our present day economy globally is poverty which have kept the better part of the world total population in the digital divide and in total fiasco. To attempt charging extra tax on the use of internet is a gross departure from the United Nations Millennium Development Goal Number One: ‘Eradication of extreme hunger and poverty’ by 2015 and the under-developed Nations of the world will be further pus into obscurity. This will project the greatest for man on this planet as crime will assume the other the day. There will be wars unending and this will surely have a ripple effect on man. It will mess up the rest seven Goals of the MDGs of the United Nation. The population of the world in the digital divide needs to be attended to and this should be the heartbeat of the government instead of thinking how to manipulate the global population of internet users to record economic index jump amidst this mortal tsunamis greeting us all on the bare face.

April 16, 2008 | 12:15 AM Comments  0 comments

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