Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: CLID for 911 - who pays? Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 89 04:23:38 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 25 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 117, message 4 of 8 In article , bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes: > ... Just out of curiousity, does > anyone know of other cases where the BOC is collecting "taxes" for a > local government? No, but I know a local government who is collecting money for the telephone company: In New Jersey, telephones have been exempt from the 6% state sales tax for as many years as telephones have been for sale retail. Now, all of a sudden, the exemption is ended. If you buy a telephone (or a key system, a PBX, or whatever) you now pay sales tax, just as you do for anything else that isn't food or clothing... The state is using the additional revenue to pay for state-wide implementation of 911 service, by New Jersey Bell and the several "independent" telephone companies in the state. I even had to pay sales tax when I bought my Caller*Id display unit! -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. The Man in the Mooney Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | att}!westmark!dave