Brussels, 13/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has concluded that the way in which UK property tax on telecommunications infrastructure is applied to BT and Kingston Communications in England and Wales does not constitute an aid under EC Treaty state aid rules. The base of the “business rates” tax is determined for each telecommunications operator by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), an executive agency of the UK Government. The VOA applies various valuation methods to...