Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Phone Taxes
Keywords: phones, taxes, mind-boggling
Message-ID: <294@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 03:56:06 GMT
References: <400@perle.UUCP>
Distribution: ont
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
Lines: 17

In article <400@perle.UUCP>, dave@perle.UUCP (Dave LeReverend) writes:
> And (can you believe it?) we've got to pay TAX on the TAX!

So this is new?
  
> The bottom line (literally) is that you pay 18.8% tax on long-distance calls.
  
The feds tax virtually everything at 12% of the wholesale cost, then
the retailer bases their markup on the price including tax, the we pay
sales tax on the whole shooting match. At 18.8% you're getting off
cheap compared with just about everything else you buy on a day to day
basis.
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