<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 27 Feb 2015, at 4:38 pm, Phillip Grasso <<a href="mailto:phillip.grasso@gmail.com" class="">phillip.grasso@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">who's gonna pay for this? any increase in compliance costs normally end up costing the customer. <div class="">Wouldn't it be funny if most of the ISP's put on their bill notices: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Mandatory Government Metadata surcharge tax^H^H^H: ~+$2 </b></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>That’s exactly what American phone carriers do: They enumerate the bill, then they add a specific line item for each additional tax, duty and tariff imposed by State and Federal governments, so the consumer can see the impact of Government policy on their phone bills.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It amazes me that Australian carriage service providers don’t do the same thing.</div><div><br class=""></div><div> - mark</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>