{"id":5989,"date":"2017-05-08T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T08:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2017-05-08T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T08:40:19","slug":"liberals-to-introduce-nbn-tax-to-end-users-in-june-sitting-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/liberals-to-introduce-nbn-tax-to-end-users-in-june-sitting-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals to introduce NBN-tax to end users in June sitting of parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5900\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/27130853\/malcolm-turnbull-nbn.jpg\" alt=\"malcolm-turnbull-nbn\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/27130923\/malcolm-turnbull-nbn.jpg 750w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/27130923\/malcolm-turnbull-nbn-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/27130923\/malcolm-turnbull-nbn-380x228.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The government is pushing to introduce a $7.10 minimum monthly broadband tax for fixed-line NBN users to pay for the future cost of the fixed wireless and satellite portions of the NBN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Users of \u201csuperfast\u201d fixed-line services will pay the tax, which starts at $7.10 a month. The tax will be charged to retail service providers, who the government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/nbn-tax-will-slug-consumers-with-higher-broadband-prices-444366\" target=\"_blank\">admitted<\/a> will pass on the cost to customers.<\/p>\n<p>About 95 percent of those taxed will be NBN fixed-line customers, while the remainder will come from operators such as TPG, which has been deploying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/tpg-forced-to-reveal-fttb-business-model-444453\" target=\"_blank\">fibre-to-the-basement services<\/a> in metro areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What was the Liberals&#8217; promise on the NBN again?<br \/>\nBetter, faster, cheaper?<\/p>\n<p>Not only have they wasted three years muddying the waters with their multi-technology-mixture and inferior rollout plan they&#8217;re now over budget, back-peddling and about to charge YOU for electing them to make their mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Abolish a carbon tax that held big polluters (your mates) responsible for their actions and rob the little guy to pay for government infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Fair suck of the sav Malc!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/27130852\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/govt-to-introduce-legislation-for-broadband-tax-460847\">Govt to introduce legislation for broadband tax &#8211; Telco\/ISP &#8211; iTnews<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is pushing to introduce a $7.10 minimum monthly broadband tax for fixed-line NBN users to pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}