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Downingtown, PA
kudos:1 | reply to TamaraB
Re: What? For those who think that VoIP will always be tax free... I really hate to break it to you. Washington will not give up that tax revenue easily. So, what's to do? Easy. When many states started losing 'franchise fees' due to customers going to DBS for TV... they passed laws enacting franchise fees for satellite dishes. Of course, doing that exposes those franchise fees for what they really are - just taxes. The notion that they're needed to pay for right-of-way usage of laying land-lines is out the window in that case.
Right now internet video streams (including voice) are not taxed (at least not at the federal level). With more and more people migrating to VoIP and away from POTS, don't be surprised if Congress decides that they need to level the playing field, and start excising those taxes on VoIP service as well. |
