Congress Considers Bill to Freeze Wireless Taxes [Write an Enduring Chill.]

Digital Liberty ^ | 2011-03-14 | [Staff]

[92nina]

With the average consumer facing a wireless tax of 16.3 percent, this week Congress will consider a bill to freeze excessive and discriminatory taxes on cell phone and wireless services. The Wireless Tax Fairness Act would put a five-year moratorium on state and local efforts to raise wireless taxes.

Today, state and local wireless taxes are nearly 4 percent higher than the average sales tax rate. Taxes hit as high as 23 percent in Nebraska, 26.8 percent in Baltimore, and 20.4 percent in New York City. High and discriminatory tax policy doesn’t just skew consumer decisions in the otherwise free-market. By raising the cost of owning a phone or wireless Internet connection, these state and local tax laws put a significant burden on Internet adoption and expansion...

[92nina]

Put these mobile taxes on ice.

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[Trajan88]

I see a fee (tax?) on my telephone bill called the infrastructure fee (has been there since the 90s at least)... so that people in remote parts of my state (Texas) can get 'reasonably priced' service.

What a crock... these people either need to move closer to civilization (is not my fault they live in the sticks) or they should pay higher rates. There's no reason I/we should subsidize their service.

[freekitty]

What is this moratorium bs? Just get rid of it. What do our Congress thugs not understand about getting rid of stuff? No crap like a moratorium leaving bad things in place so our crooks can benefit from them.

[sten]

so... they finally found a way to tax the air

brilliant

that ought to really save the country. /sarc