Conservatives announce fibre optic broadband tax review plansMonday, November 9th 2009 The Conservatives have claimed they would make a review into business rates tax on fibre optic broadband a priority if they win power at the next election. A review will be launched into a tax charged on fibre optic broadband if the Conservatives are elected to power in the next election, it has been claimed.
Shadow arts minister Ed Vaizey has stated such a move would be priority for the party, as it claims it could be causing "huge damage" to the telecoms industry in the UK.
According to ComputerWeekly.com, he claimed that a key issues was the number of bodies that share responsibility for the rates.
He explained to the website: "No-one's prepared to take responsibility for the whole picture. We see policy shared between a bewildering array of government bodies and quangos. This is something I intend to fix."
Mr Vaizey also claimed that the current process was "an active discentive" to the nationwide roll-out of fibre optic broadband.
Last week, it was announced that broadband provider BT is rolling out fibre optic networks in Glasgow as part of a major trial of the technology.
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