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CTIA Wants Cell Phone Taxes Stopped |
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 April 2008 )
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CTIA is setting up a petition to congress that they hope will help put a freeze on cell phone bill taxes for the next five years, a move that should help keep costs of cellular use down considerably.
CTIA pointed out when filing their petition that almost 15% of each user bill is currently put in place by cell phone taxes. The CTIA members also pointed out that cellular taxes have increased at four times the rate of other goods and services in the 4 years from 2003 to 2007.
Lucky the group is being supported by Zoe Lefgren (D-CA) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) who submitted the "Cell Tax Farness Act" to the House of Representatives today.
I personally think the freezing of taxes is a good idea, not just because i'm obviously a cell phone user, but because further taxation at a time when the economy is sliding into a recession could end up hurting the industry by ultimately cutting into profits, while also alienating users who have watched the cost of using cellular phones increase, while new bills are put into place that make using cell phones in cars illegal without bluetooth devices, which also need to be purchased.
With the increasing costs of using a cell phone a freeze is in the best interests of big business and the smaller consumer.
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