Los Angeles Voters Pass Updated 'Communications' Tax, May Include DATA
Date : 2008 02 07 Category : Web News
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Proposition S expands city's current telephone tax from simple land-line and most cell-phone calls to include the routing of voice, audio, video, data or other communication information transmitted through fiber-optic coaxial cables, power lines, broadband, DSL or wireless systems.
This past "Super Tuesday" election day some 66% of voters in Los Angeles decided to vote for Proposition S and expand the city's telephone tax to include both video and data in order to counter declining land-line revenue and shore up other budget shortfalls.
On the one hand, the proposition reduces the city's telephone users tax from 10% to 9%, but on the other it expands it to include modern technology such as Internet phone use.