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join:2002-08-31
Resolute, NU
1 edit | Providers get rid of the "network access fee" Sales reps already say that fee is a government tax. (here in Canada anyways), so now providers can kill that tax, and their sales people will no longer be lying..
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There is a tax revolt on POTS lines going on to the tune of over 10 million voice lines already between the major carriers of voip today | |
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Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | wonder if FIOS is taxable, if they pull the POTS line from your house when you subscribe that means your phone is technicly VOIP and isnt taxable except for the 911 fee.
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Taranis
join:2001-12-06
Mount Vernon, WA | The phone industry is guilty as anyone.. This is nothing but a PR move from the Phone Companies. When was the last time anyone's see a phone company pay its own taxes instead of passing them off to the consumer? | |
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Rockin' the Boxen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
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| Re: The phone industry is guilty as anyone.. said by Taranis  :This is nothing but a PR move from the Phone Companies. When was the last time anyone's see a phone company pay its own taxes instead of passing them off to the consumer? Umm... when, in the history of commerce for profit, has any seller not ulitmately passed along the cost of doing business to their customers?
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join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL
| Re: The phone industry is guilty as anyone.. Agreed, but lets look at it this way. When, in the history of commerce for profit, has any seller not ultimately passed along the cost of doing business to their customers, until after the customer was contractually obligated for service based on a bait and switch pricing scenario. | |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| Baltimore City does it.... Baltimore City charges $3.00 per cell phone or pager account. This is nothing more than a luxury tax.
And this has been a windfall in that the city now has a surplus for the first time in years (yet the school system seems to "misplace" millions of dollars a year.  ) | |
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join:2000-10-11
Lincolnshire, IL
clubs:  | Re: Baltimore City does it.... It's the municipality (local) tax which is outrageous in my case. Mine adds 9.9% to my sprint bill every month. The state (Illinois) adds a flat .75 cents. | |
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rideboarder
welcome to the social
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join:2003-07-28
Snohomish, WA
clubs: | Re: Baltimore City does it.... up here in washington state they calculated the total tax to about 25%, one of the highest in the nation, if not the highest. | |
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LinuxJunkie
join:2005-01-19
Cyberspace
| Pot Calling the Kettle Black? quote:
The phone industry has launched StopAddingToMyBill.com to fight the moves.
Unless they're referring to the cell phone providers, the POTS service providers have a lot of balls if they're running a campaign called "stop adding to my bill" considering they're the ones who have mastered the art of hiding rate increases in bullshit "taxes" such as the Universal Service Recovery tax. | |
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News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | Re: Pot Calling the Kettle Black? I think the "regulatory recover "unfee" originated in the wireless industry.... | |
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Tomek
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join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY
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| Re: Thier figures of off... My plan is $39 as well (no SMS) and I get bill of around $50. $10 or 20% of my total bill is taxes/fees.
That's outrageous. Why not impose ONE official tax, like FEDERAL TELECOM TAX with a specific rate and then let government split it among their agencies. When I got my first bill in America, it took CSR about an hour to go over every individual tax/fee on the POTS bill.
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join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | Re: Thier figures of off... Why not impose ANY TAX. If the tax is truly used to manage the regulation of that particular product, fine. I don't like it but fine. You can't tell me that it costs 30+% to regulate a product. That's bull. | |
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@aol.com
| Re: Thier figures of off...
It's because they know you will pay it because you are addicted to the wireless phone. You'll squawk about more property, income and sales taxes, so, to keep up their level of spending (god forbid they actually STOP spending what they dont have) They add these taxes and charges to your phone bill. Untill and unless the american popu;lation really makes a big deal about this kind of stuff, they will keep soaking you. You notice all these taxes are now on things they know you are loathe to do without.
They know you, sucker, better than you know yourself. And Joe box of rocks will just keep paying and paying, just like your elected "representatives knew he would. | |
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Troy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13
| said by PhoenixDown :At least by my bill. My plan is $39.99 + $0.50 for text messages. My taxes, surcharges and BS are 32% $40.49 My Plan + text messages for the month $1.75 REGULATORY PROGRAMS FEE $1.34 UNIVERSAL CONNECTIVITY CHARGE $1.56 TELECOM EXCISE TAX $0.30 LOCAL WIRELESS SURCHARGE $0.38 MCTD SURCHARGE $1.42 FEDERAL TAX $0.87 NY CITY UTILITY G.R. SUR $1.20 ST WIRELESS COMM SURCHARGE $3.98 SALES TAX $12.80 Tax Total 32% Tax Half of those aren't taxes, they are "fees" that the phone company charges you. | |
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Qwest's Spirit Of Service Inaction
join:2003-07-11
Colorado Springs, CO
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| Prepayers don't pay any tax, other than sales tax. (7.4% here)
Though the minutes are pricey enough that they likely cover the 14.85% that they say I should be paying.
In any case, landline taxes are still much, much higher based on percentage. I pay only 14.88 base for my home phone, but the taxes are 10.22, or 68.7%. Telcos, states, feds, there's plenty of blame to go around. | |
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join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
1 edit | Re: Gov site for official ny city / state tax? This is from »www.stopaddingtomybill.com/analy···p20.aspx
Top 20 Most Taxing States
Some states are worse than others when it comes to how much they tax wireless consumers. Below is a ranking of the top 20 states in which wireless consumers are paying the most taxes and fees for their service.
Level of Taxation on Wireless Consumers
State-Local Total
New York 16.23% 21.71%
Florida 16.12% 21.60%
Washington 16.04% 21.52%
Illinois 15.57% 21.05%
Nebraska 15.13% 20.61%
Texas 14.19% 19.67%
Rhode Island 14.07% 19.55%
Pennsylvania 13.57% 19.05%
California 13.18% 18.66%
District of Columbia 12.57% 18.05%
South Dakota 12.01% 17.49%
Tennessee 11.57% 17.05%
Missouri 11.12% 16.60%
Arizona 11.06% 16.54%
North Dakota 10.94% 16.42%
Wyoming 10.67% 16.15%
Kansas 10.32% 15.80%
Utah 10.25% 15.73%
Arkansas 10.21% 15.69%
Kentucky 9.98% 15.46%
(Source: Scott Mackey, State Tax Notes, July 19, 2004)
Just found this link here that shows all states.
»www.stopaddingtomybill.com/docum···down.pdf | |
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Supreme Ideology
join:2004-11-14
Atlanta, GA | Start taxing VOIP also So I guess if I go all VOIP they going to tax that too.
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join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO | Re: Start taxing VOIP also Eventually.... yes they will. | |
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rawgerz
In Debt we trust
Premium
join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA
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1 edit | 86 million new wow.. and i never owned one!:D
thats like 2/3rds of the population and cell phones are still $40-70 a month? common
ive recently looked at the rates for verizon and i was APPALLED! do they want EVERYONE to talk after 9:01PM??
and theres still no affordable internet via cell plans and thats still the best reason it would appeal to me, if verizon could offer $39(and they could tax $5 on it for all i care) 2mb/128-256 with no caps i would rush into buy one.. its still virgin territory
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join:2003-05-05
Louisville, KY | Re: 86 million new wow.. and that would truely change the game! | |
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neftv
join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA | revolt people Call, email, your local reps. Tell them to stop it with the taxes already.
Unless your happy with paying these taxes that will end up costing more than the service itself one day then go back and sit on your couch and drink your beer. | |
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220, 221, Whatever It Takes.
Premium
join:2000-11-08
Mechanicsburg, PA | the peasants are revolting... king: "yeah, they stink on ice" | |
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vic102482
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Upper Marlboro, MD | Most people Send the billing address to some where that gets less taxes. | |
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Notorious
join:2001-03-30
Brooklyn, NY
clubs: | Unreal My plan is 75 bucks, after taxes, 97. Talk about getting mugged. | |
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viperpa33s
Why Me?
Premium
join:2002-12-20
Bradenton, FL | Taxation without representation I hate taxes just as much as the next guy, probably even more so. It's just history repeating itself, taxation without representation. Then you have the people who want everything in the world, so how do they expect the government to pay for it? | |
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Well, quit pissing and moaning and actually sit down and write a letter to your "representative" threatening his job if he supports any more taxes of any kind. This is the only threat these parasites will listen to.
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join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
| Re: Taxation without representation said by Fatal vector:
Well, quit pissing and moaning and actually sit down and write a letter to your "representative" threatening his job if he supports any more taxes of any kind.
No more taxes of any kind, eh? So how do you suppose the states pay for roads, schools, police and emergency response services, government operations and other services we come to expect from our local government? Taxes might not be liked, but they are in fact necessary. What really needs to be done is a major audit on how tax dollars are actually spent to makes sure the money is actually being put to good use.
You trim the fat in the government and there either won't be a need for more taxes or we will get a lot more things done for our community with the additional funds better utilized. | |
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Premium
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
| Re: Taxation without representation said by SRFireside :What really needs to be done is a major audit on how tax dollars are actually spent to makes sure the money is actually being put to good use. Absolutely, 100% agreement, couldn't have said it better myself. There's an insane amount of cabinet positions at the federal level, most of which don't really do anything. How about we create a Department of Watching the Money and give them the power to look into all other government agencies? Every dollar that gets spent ends up in someone's pocket. How about showing us who it ended up with and what they did to earn it? | |
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plk
bo may sleep in loft
Premium
join:2002-04-20
Ogden, IA
| What a cash cow for our govt Around 1990, before the cell phone really took off and before dial up internet, the number of lines were smaller. I don't remember the number. I just know how much area code splitting was going on in the 90's.
So, this has been a gravy train for the govt and now they are addicted to it. I wonder if the founding fathers thought....freedom of speech...... but we can always tax it to death. (I know, that's a stretch)
Never the less and just guessing, I would assume over 100 million lines have been added in the past 15 years.
Mean while we are exporting jobs, importing cheaper labor, and driving down wages. But that's another forum.
Anyone know the phone line statistics for around 1990?
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join:2005-05-10
Dubuque, IA | No Cell Phone Here I don't have a cell phone and really do not see a need for one in the near future. | |
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join:2001-10-23
Montreal, QC
| Just suck it up. Just consider all of these cell phone taxes as a "Disturbing the Peace by jabbing away" fine and a "down payment on the accident damage I am going to cause by driving while trying to handle my micro sized cell phone" fee.
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