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The Federal Excise Tax on Telephone Service: A History (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised June 30, 2005
Report Number RL30553
Report Type Report
Authors Louis Alan Talley, Government and Finance Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

This report traces the history of the federal excise tax on telephone service from1898 to the present. The public laws/federal legislation addressing the tax are listedand summarized in Table 1 at the end of this report. The text provides the historicalcontext for the major legislation affecting the telephone excise tax. The historyshows that the tax has been intermittent. Over the last century, the tax has changedmany times and in many ways.