Has Mary White of the Green Party got her calcs slightly wrong with her suggestion that a tax of 1 cent per text message could raise 1.4 billion in a year.
Even if all 4 million people in the country had a phone they would have to send 96 texts a day. Or am i missing something here?
is she suggesting 140 billion is spent pa on text messages? that would show 4m citizens spending about 35,000 pa on text messages....
It would raise about €90m. I actually heard her on the radio this morning arguing with Newstalk about the amount that the tax could raise. She actually mentioned bringing in actuaries to do the maths!!
A Green Party TD is getting inventive on how to raise more money for the public coffers. Mary White is proposing that a tax of about 1 cent be applied to every text message sent from our mobiles. About 25 million texts are sent every year in Ireland, and on that basis such a tax could raise €91 million. Deputy White told the Breakfast Show she thinks it's a painless way of taking in money in very tough times.
I didn't hear the item, but this is what is on the Newstalk site
Where does the €1.4 billion figure come from ? Did she mention it in passing ?
About 25 million texts are sent every year in Ireland, and on that basis such a tax could raise €91 millionquote]
I see newstalk's maths skills are equivelent to Mary Whites then.....
About 25 million texts are sent every year in Ireland, and on that basis such a tax could raise €91 millionquote]
I see newstalk's maths skills are equivelent to Mary Whites then.....
Its 25 million a day. But yes they are just as bad!
.. based on the country's four million people sending an average of 10 texts a day each..
"A RECORD two billion text messages were sent by Irish mobile phone users in the final three months of last year.
Vodafone and O2, the country’s biggest mobile phone operators have a customer base of almost four million between them.
At the end of last year Vodafone had 2.23 million Irish customers while O2 had 1.72 million.
O2 added 82,000 new customers in 2008, which is up almost 5% compared with the previous year.
Its customers sent 699 million texts in the final quarter of 2008 — a 74% increase on the same period last year while Vodafone customers sent close to one billion messages, the highest ever number of texts sent in any quarter.
Meteor would not give specific figures on how many texts were sent last year but it said it has a customer base of 1.3 million and a 20% market share. It said 450 million texts were sent by its customers in December alone."
Has Mary White of the Green Party got her calcs slightly wrong with her suggestion that a tax of 1 cent per text message could raise 1.4 billion in a year.
Even if all 4 million people in the country had a phone they would have to send 96 texts a day. Or am i missing something here?
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