Mobile Future urged Senate lawmakers to “expeditiously” pass the Wireless...
Mobile Future urged Senate lawmakers to “expeditiously” pass the Wireless Tax Fairness Act (S-543) in a letter sent Wednesday to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. “We are seeing a significantly growing tax…
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burden for wireless consumers who are increasingly relying on and benefiting from tremendous new mobile opportunities,” wrote Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter. States have fought the bill because it proposes a five-year moratorium on new state and local taxes on wireless (CD Nov 2 p8). But the provision would protect consumers and “help ensure that mobile adoption and usage is not discouraged by new, discriminatory state and local wireless taxes,” Spalter said.