State of Taxation.(government is imposing taxes on wireless services)

Wireless Week, January, 2006 by Rockwell, Mark

By Mark Rockwell Taxes on wireless services are in for revisions, but not without a fight. In the end, as the old saying goes, the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Combine the two inevitabilities and you might have what the future holds for taxes on wireless services: the death of wireless taxes, or at least some of them.

But with wireless taxes, it seems as though death is negotiable. Taxing telecom services is something of an American institution, going back more than 100 years to the infancy of the wireline telephone and telegraph network. The government placed taxes on calls for funding of telecom-related and sometimes remote, unrelated projects. Some of those centenarian taxes are with us today, but if the wireless...

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