Talk:Stealth tax/Comments

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[edit] WP Tax Class

This article needs expansion in content, the article pretty much covers a country's national politics in such a way as to give a history of a present political issue. It should be expanded beyond that to give the general history, impact, and theory of stealth taxation.EECavazos 20:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

The article also needs to be globalized.EECavazos 20:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP Tax Priority

High priority because this is a basic approach to taxation and would likely have high traffic.EECavazos 20:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Passing spectrum auction costs on to customers

I am not aware of any verifiable economic evidence that auctioning broadcast licences results in the costs being passed on to the consumer. That point of view contradicts Ricardo's Law of Rent, a generally accepted economic theory.

If, for example, the UK Government had just given the 3G licences away on a "first come, first served" basis, the person/people who obtained the licences could have simply auctioned the licences to the mobile phone companies, which would have resulted in the companies facing the same costs.

The following paper gives some background to the UK 3G auction and outlines some of the reasons why the licence costs impact the mobile phone operators profits, not the price paid by the consumer:

http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/klemperer/biggestsept.pdf

--Paul-lockett (talk) 12:05, 12 May 2008 (UTC)