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...