Actually that is not true. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/22/no_state_voip_regs/ http://blog.pff.org/archives/2004/11/internet_taxati.html Their is a state and federal tax moratorium on VoIP until November 2007. -Jed
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Sent: Thu 7/21/2005 2:42 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Tax? On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:48 -0400, Lists wrote: > Hang on a second, did FCC not rule against that? My memory is just vague, but > I thought they put their foot down on taxing VoIP. Some were trying to and > FCC stopped them? Or was that not applicable to sales tax, or am I just plain > imagining it? > if the FCC were to say no sales tax on voip there would be a cnostitutional challenge since states have the right to tax sales in their staes. There were discussions of other fees and taxes for the telephony side (really all the FCC can try to do through a loophole in the constutition stating that congress shall have the power to levy taxes, doesnt say they can delegate that to others, but ... -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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