[comp.dcom.telecom] Municipal Taxation of Interstate Long Distance Phone Charges

forrette@cory.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette) (05/29/90)

A couple of days ago someone who lives in Berkeley mentioned that
their US Sprint bill had charges for the City of Berkeley tax applied
to all calls, not just intra-state ones.  I checked into this a bit,
and finally tracked someone down in the Berkeley city offices that had
some background.  She read me part of an article that appeared in the
San Francisco Chronicle on January 11, 1989, which stated:

"The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for local governments to
tax inter-state phone calls."

Maybe this is old news to most of you, but not to me.  Anyway, I guess
we'll just have to live with this one...