Archive for the ‘Taxes & Fees’ Category
CTIA Letter Supporting Middle Class Tax Relief Act
Today, I sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; and Minority Leaders Mitch McConnell and John Boehner in support of the Middle Class Tax Relief Act. Specifically, CTIA applauds the inclusion of ‘bonus depreciation’, retaining the 15 percent dividend tax rate, acceleration of AMT credits and a continuation [...]
Digital Goods Tax: Are You Being Unfairly Taxed for Your Downloaded Purchases?
Did you know that when you purchase downloadable items (e.g. apps, music, e-books), they could be taxed 2 or 3 different times by a variety of cities and states? There is no question that we are in a challenging economy. But what we are finding is that local and state governments are increasingly placing the [...]
CTIA’s Pres & CEO Largent Talks 2010 and 2011 Wireless Industry Priorities
In the last couple of days, CTIA’s President and CEO Steve Largent has been talking with reporters about his thoughts about 2010 and our industry’s priorities for 2011. Steve told reporters that our focuses are: spectrum; taxes and fees (including Digital Goods Tax, which we’ll have more on later today); and consumer issues. So far, here are [...]
CTIA-The Wireless Association® Statement on the FCC Meeting
After today’s FCC meeting, I released the following statement: “As Chairman Genachowski pursues his consumer agenda that was discussed at the meeting today, we hope he will address three additional pro-consumer items. “One is the discriminatory 15 percent in taxes and fees that wireless consumers pay each month, which is more than double the rate for [...]
CTIA-The Wireless Association® Statement After President Obama Signed the Small Business Jobs Act
I released the following statement after President Barack Obama signed the Small Business Jobs Act: “CTIA and the wireless industry appreciate the President’s swift action to sign the bill that included the MOBILE Cell Phone Act. By signing the bill into law, wireless devices are now eliminated from the IRS listed property rule, which had said [...]
CTIA Statement on House Passage of Small Business Jobs Act
I issued the following statement today after the House of Representatives passed the Small Business Jobs Act (H.R. 5297), which included the MOBILE Cell Phone Act of 2009 (H.R. 690). The bill removes cell phones from IRS listed property rules. “We are pleased the House passed the MOBILE Cell Phone Act, which will remove wireless [...]
CTIA Statement on FCC’s Release on State Collection and Distribution of 911/E911 Fees and Charges
After the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the “2nd Annual Report to Congress on State Collection and Distribution of 911 and Enhanced 911 Fees and Charges,” which found 13 states that collected the fees used it to support programs other than 911 and five states didn’t respond or didn’t provide information, I released the following statement: “CTIA [...]
Cell Taxes: Excessive and Discriminatory
We continue our focus on this month’s theme of consumer tips by focusing today on wireless taxes. When you look at your bill, you’ve likely seen that your mobile devices and services are exessively and discriminatorily taxed. We believe this is a terrible attempt to discourage its use. When you look at it from an economic [...]
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