I really hate all the taxes we have. I just received my T-Mobile bill and I thought I would list the taxes paid in CA just on the cell phone bill:
- CA Advanced Service Fund
- CA Relay Service and Communications Device Fund
- California High Cost Fund - A (CHCF-A)
- California High Cost Fund - B (CHCF-B)
- California Teleconnect Fund
- Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Tax (911)
- High Cost Fund Surcharge
- Relay Service Device Fund
- State 911
- State Excist Tax
- State TRS Surcharge
- State Telecom Excise
- State Universal Service Fund
- Universal Lifeline Telelphone Service Surcharge
- City Utility Users Tax
- Federal Universal Service Fund
- Regulatory Fee
The total for these taxes isn't very much overall ($5.75) but you can imagine what they are collecting for each and every cell phone in California. Also, there is another $9.00 (for two phones) listed as "Taxes and Surcharges" which makes the total tax of $14.75.
Of course, this is just the taxes on the two cell phones (one for me, one for wifey). I haven't begun to list the other tax. Let's see, the CA tax is 9.75% (I believe) that you pay on anything else you buy. And, we pass taxes on the gasoline, taxes on alcohol, taxes on tobacco, taxes for any hotel/motel, etc, etc, etc.
The taxes are getting wayyyyyyyyyyyyy out of hand..........
