Chancellor asked to drop phone tax
28th March 1991, Page 6
28th March 1991
Page 6
Page 6, 28th March 1991
— Chancellor asked to drop phone tax
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Parliament Of The United Kingdom, Politics Of The United Kingdom, British People, Mobile Telecommunications, Norman Lamont, Mobile Phone, Lamont, Labor, Politics
• Chancellor Norman Lamont is under pressure to withdraw his Budget decision to tax mobile phones as a perk. Unless he does so truck drivers who have phones fitted by their employers will have to pay tax on 200 if they use the phones for private calls.
Sir William Clark, chairman of the Commons backbench finance committee, wants Lamont to change his mind.
Another effect of the Budget is that owners of nonoperational fire engines are having to pay VED for the first time — not having it withdrawn as we reported last week.
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