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Maybe they haven’t been reading the news–or their mail from Washington, D.C.–otherwise the voters in Los Angeles would know the 9 percent tax they just approved on VoIP calls has a snowball’s chance in, well, it doesn’t stand much of a shot in court, where it’ll invariably end up.
 
The measure was passed last month and includes a stipulation that drops taxes on all other phone calls from 10 percent to 9 percent. The city told voters the new tax money would go toward police and fire protection.
 
Problem is, the feds last fall passed a seven-year extension of a moratorium protecting Internet access services from federal, state, and local sales or excise taxes. President Bush signed the measure Nov. 1. Must be a slow connection to Los Angeles.
 
For more:
- Read the full story from the Heartland Institute
 
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