{"id":1007,"date":"2018-04-18T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T08:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goshbuzz.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2018-09-29T17:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:21:52","slug":"this-country-is-planning-to-tax-its-social-media-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/this-country-is-planning-to-tax-its-social-media-users\/","title":{"rendered":"This Country Is Planning To Tax Its Social Media Users!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today lots of people are wasting their precious time on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Viber &amp; WhatsApp with useless chats &amp; online gossip, spreading fake news &amp; infinite scrolling their feed again &amp; again. In order to put a check on this\u00a0malpractice, country <em><strong>Uganda<\/strong> <\/em>is planning a never heard &amp; seen solution &#8211; <em><strong>Tax Social Media Users<\/strong><\/em>! Under the brand new &#8220;<em><strong>Social Media Tax Method<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; a <em><strong>daily tax of $0.05<\/strong><\/em> per mobile phone subscriber shall be charged from the people for using social media services. The method is the result of Uganda president&#8217;s ideology that &#8220;<em><strong>idle talk on social media is costing the country much-needed time &amp; income<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. Well, we hope that on roll-out, the new idea will help Uganda to rationalize the social media use in the country &amp; will also help the country financially!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1254196\/uganda-to-tax-social-media-to-stop-gossip-increase-government-revenue\/\">Quartz<\/a>, Photo Thanks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thesaleswhisperer\/14999830698\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today lots of people are wasting their precious time on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Viber &amp; WhatsApp with useless chats &amp; online gossip, spreading fake news &amp; infinite scrolling their feed again &amp; again. In order to put a check on this\u00a0malpractice, country Uganda is planning a never heard &amp; seen solution&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,607,162,256,46,249,35,4,234,13,19],"tags":[16,117,90,61,221,49,147,222,118,24,385,20,386,387,140,29,388,389,15,377],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Uganda-Is-Planning-To-Tax-Its-Social-Media-Users-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=1023%2C570&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-gf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}