September 4, 2019		INDEX
Click tax and blackmail
Someone is going through my contacts, hacking them and then sending me messages which I take to be blackmail.I believe this is connected with my motion I hope to get debated by Labour Party conference on click tax. If your account is (or has been) hacked, you have my sincere apologies. Conference recognises that the internet giants have become corporations who do not make a fair contribution to either tax or employment, furthermore they threaten the existence of the high street through unfair competition. Conference therefore calls on Labour to campaign for the introduction of a tax to level the playing field between bricks and mortar and click retailers and take back control. This proposed “Click Tax” would be levied on the Internet Service Providers with a clear understanding that they would collect it from the relevant corporations and shut them down in the UK, if they failed to pay. Click Tax would therefore work as the online equivalent of business rates. Click Tax would be levied on the basis of the agglomeration of the audit of internet usage currently kept by ISPs as a result of the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, which forces ISPs to keep a record of the clicks of all users for the previous 12 months therefore meaning no new information is required to be obtained for the levying of this tax. It could be levied at rates calculated for different sectors: gambling companies, sales platforms that refuse to collect VAT and retailers being obvious potential categories. It is suggested that the trigger point for being eligible to pay this would mean it only impacting the largest internet businesses. Chatham and Aylesford CLP
INDEX Jonathan Brind	September 4, 2019