Excellent answer! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Aug 5, 2015 10:50 AM, "David Sovereen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> USF is a tax on interstate phone services. > > If you charge for intrastate and interstate services separately, you can > tax the interstate charges at the USF rate. If you do not, and you can > determine the percentage of minutes that are interstate vs intrastate, you > can charge USF on that percentage of the total charge. There are some > reporting requirements if you are doing this. Otherwise, you can use the > Safe Harbor amount which assumes that 64.9% of the bundles > interstate+intrastate charge is interstate and charge USF on that. > > Example: > > $25 VoIP Bundle > 64.9% = Interstate = $14.40 Interstate > $14.40 x USF (presently 17.1%) = $2.46 USF due > > Dave > > > > On Aug 5, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Simon Westlake < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I seem to vaguely remember someone once telling me it is calculated as a > percentage of the tax that you assess your customer, but that doesn't seem > right to me. Googling has proved fruitless. Anyone here collect USF and, if > so, how do you calculate it? Or even if you don't collect USF but know how > it should be done, that'll work too! > > >
