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Monday, February 09, 2009

Finland and Sweden Appeal to EC on Taxes on GPS-enabled Phones

The two countries are responding to a December plan from the European Commission to tax some phones with fancy features as “multi-function devices” and then tax them. GPS-enabled phones would get a 3.7% tax, those that get TV reception 14%. Note that Finland is home of Nokia (and my personal trainer).
Sony Ericsson joint-venture partner Ericsson is based in Sweden.

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by Adena Schutzberg on 02/09 at 06:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
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