Recently released documents reveal that the United Nations International Telecommunication Union is working on plans that would allow them to tax the major Internet Web content providers. The list of tax targets includes Google, Apple, Netflix and Facebook.
According to the report I read, the tax proposal originated with a lobby group based in Brussels called European Telecommunications Network Operators Association, or ETNO. This group is said to represent companies in thirty-five countries who are trying to force these taxes to be collected, most likely for their use. The ETNO members of the ITU is calling for the current telecommunications treaty to be amended to allow the taxing of major Internet providers for the privilege of serving non-US web users. Read more
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