On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 02:01 -0400, VIP Carrier wrote: > Can some one share with me an information about Federal and State > Surcharges and Taxes in New York. > I would like to know what % and for what?
Federal may or may not apply, the USF contributions (which change every quarter) are only for "interconnected voip providers" as defined by statute. http://www.fcc.gov/omd/contribution-factor.html Proposed contribution factor for the third quarter 2008 is 0.114 or 11.4%. http://law.justia.com/us/cfr/title47/47-1.0.1.1.9.html Interconnected VoIP service. An interconnected Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service is a service that: (1) Enables real-time, two-way voice communications; (2) Requires a broadband connection from the user's location; (3) Requires Internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment (CPE); and (4) Permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network. note the use of "and" it means that you must meet all 4 criteria or you arent an "interconnected voip provider". Stanaphone split their inbound and outbound service specifically to avoid this, I havent heard any lawsuits over this, but I havent looked either to see if they are successful in doing this. They may have changed their program in response. So you have options, #1 is almost always a given, #2 can be avoided by not _requiring_ one (gsm/g.729/ilbc/etc limit channels so it works over a modem or other non-broadband connection), #3 applies almost always unless you do ipx or something silly that way, even an asterisk box would count as CPE. And I covered #4 options before, remember the word "and" is in that one too. The more you can get around the more likely it is that your claim you arent a "interconnected voip provider" counts. Course you will have to pay USF if you dont qualify, since ultimately the pstn carriers will have to charge someone or get an exemption (such as a FCC 499 number, not required but often is what is used). USF is also only payable per the FCC order if your contribution is $10k/year or more you also only have to do the 499A (annual) not the 499Q (quarterly) filings. So you *might* be able to get a number, then not pay because you dont owe but get an exception from the carrier. Odds are that wouldnt be exactly legal though, they want *someone* to pay. But it is based on "end user" revenues, and you are just reselling so there is a hook that may work for you. Talk to legal though. In addition this definition applies to CALEA (wiretap) and E911 services, if you dont qualify as an "interconnected voip provider" you dont have to do those things either, if you do qualify you must. > -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
