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EU scraps plan to add taxes to GPS-enabled mobile phones (0)

7/03/09 •

A December proposal by the European Commission to impose a 3.7 percent tax on GPS-enabled mobile phones and a 14 percent tax on mobile TV-enabled phones has been halted.  In a European Union Customs Committee Meeting earlier this week, the majority of EU countries voted to overturn the proposal as did the number one cellphone [...]