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At long last--tax relief!(telephones taxation relief)(Brief article)
It took 108 years, five appeals-court rulings, and roughly a decade of congressional protests, but on May 26 outgoing U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow announced that the federal government will finally permit the 1898 telephone tax to expire.
Initially imposed to raise revenue for the Spanish-American War, the telephone excise tax was revised in 1965 to permit the feds "to tax long-distance calls based on elapsed time, distance, or both," observed the Chicago Tribune. "In 2005, the Internal Revenue Service insisted both types of calls were taxable. The courts ruled the tax did not ...
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