European GPS enabled phones maybe taxed

Dec 21, 2008 ,

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It is still in proposal at this stage but if it is turned into law any cell phone which falls into the ‘multi-functional device’ category will be taxed extra inside European Union. It will be different for different features and for GPS this happens to be 3.7%. It will be even worse – 14% – for handsets with digital TV receivers.

Like we said earlier this not signed into law – and no decision will be made earlier than 6 months… via

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  1. Los teléfonos habilitados para GPS en Europa serían gravados con impuestos | Actualidad GPS - manuales y noticias sobre navegadores GPS Says:

    December 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm

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