State and local governments have carried out “misguided tax policies”...
State and local governments have carried out “misguided tax policies” that “burden” wireless consumers, Free State Foundation Research Fellow Seth Cooper said in a Thursday blog post (http://xrl.us/bn34eu). Maryland should stop the “trend,” he said: “It should reduce the special…
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burden it puts on wireless consumers through multiple taxes, fees, and surcharges. Ideally, Maryland tax policy should treat wireless services just like any other service, taxing them no higher than general sales tax rates and limiting any imposed fees to actual costs.” The free market think tank is based in Maryland. The state’s wireless consumers face 12.77 percent in taxes, fees and surcharges, “the eleventh highest wireless tax burden in the nation,” Cooper wrote, referring to wireless taxes, universal service payments, 911 fees and the state sales tax.