Study: Taxes are costliest part of providing telecom services

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Watchdog.org:

A study on rural broadband found that — wait for it — taxes are far and away the largest cost involved in providing telecommunications services.

 

This comes after another report last year indicated taxes could slow down wireless broadband expansion.

 

Hudson Institute’s “The Economic Impact of Rural Broadband” found that excise-type taxes that providers collect and remit to governments make up $1.3 billion of the “purchases” required to produce telecommunications services. That’s more than triple the next category of purchases: about $400 million in advertising and related services.

 

broadband costs hudson instituteHudson Institute is a conservative-leaning nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C.