The Globe and Mail reports that the government was thinking about grabbing the more than $600 million sitting in deferral accounts that the CRTC wants used for broadband and consumer groups want refunded. The optics of hundreds of millions of consumers' money going into government coffers while the same telcos avoid hundreds of millions in taxes via income trusts must not have been particularly attractive.
Gov’t Backs Down in Cash Grab For Deferral Account
October 17, 2006
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