Government may look to licence fee to roll out high-speed broadband

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And it will abolish the IR35 tax code, deemed to discriminate against IT freelancers

The undertaking replaces Labour's 50p broadband tax proposal A formal commitment "to ensure the rapid rollout of superfast broadband" was included in the Lib-Con coalition agreement setting out t...

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