California government plans to impose tax on short message service
News24xx.com - California state regulators in the United States will impose tax on short message services or SMS. This tax will be used to support the connectivity development program for residents who lack access to telecommunications networks.
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This new surcharge proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will not impose tax on every message sent. Taxes will be charged to monthly cellular bills which include short message fees. Because, most operators offer a flat fee option for sending short messages, and are usually tied up with telephone bills too.
The commission will vote on this policy on January 10, 2019. It is certain that the commission will face strong opposition from industries such as CTIA, which represents AT & T Mobility, Sprint, and T-Mobile. This blocking plan could be hampered because recently the new communication commissions in the US (Federal Communication Commission) classified text messages as "information services" like e-mail.
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Therefore the CTIA industry group believes that if a short message is an information service, then CPUC has no authority over CTIA. CTIA said CPUC could not apply additional fees because it was claimed to be against the law.
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