adg%ukfca1.uk.ate.slb.com@sj.ate.slb.com (03/20/91)
The British Chancellor Norman Lamont announced yesterday that he was taxing what he called the "Scurge of modern society, the mobile telephone." From 6th April company mobile telephones will be considered to be a fringe benefit and will be assessed at a rate of 200 pounds sterling, resulting in a personal tax charge of 50 pounds sterling per year for the user. The chancellor concluded that this will make restaurants quite again and the roads safer. The initial reactions from users consider this to be a joke tax from a Government in disarray. Non-business users, or more specifically non-VAT registered, users will be hit by the increase in VAT from 15% to 17.5%. Adam Gorman Mobile 0836 731395 Solstice Systems Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 9AZ 0225 755740