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CTIA Calls for Halt On New Cell Phone Taxes

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Apr 15, 2008, 12:29 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

The CTIA is petitioning congress to put a five-year freeze on any new taxes on cell phone bills. The CTIA claims that about 15% of each cell phone bill goes towards state and local wireless taxes. Further, it says that the growth rate of taxation on wireless bills was four times that of other goods and services between 2003 and 2007. The CTIA says that if taxes continue to increase, it could hurt the industry. The Cell Tax Fairness Act was presented to the House of Representatives today by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Chris Cannon (R-UT).

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BROWN27

Apr 15, 2008, 12:55 PM

Good!

Hope it passes it's ridiculous the amount of taxes we pay! 👿
It's even worse in CA, on top of paying high tax on the bill we also pay tax on the full retail price of a handset not tax on the 2yr discounted price... regulation 1585, tsk tsk.
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BROWN27 said:
Hope it passes it's ridiculous the amount of taxes we pay! 👿


Wait, aren't you the guy who gets all his Sprint service for free? (see post regarding Verizon's new text-only plan) They can't tax y...
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Sepiroth

Apr 16, 2008, 2:20 PM

Long over due

They need to set some limits for what the states can charge. Otherwise in a couple of years it could be horrendous.
durkadurkha

Apr 16, 2008, 10:14 AM

we NEED these taxes!!!

Without these taxes inner city folks would need to find a job...its bad enough we have 3rd generation welfare, but i think its funny when people on welfare try to buy a CELL PHONE! this is kinda like the joke about hiding their food stamps under their work boots.
 
 
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