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“LETTER TO A TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBER”
DEAR TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBER
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LIKE MOST OTHER Americans you received your telephone bill a few days ago. By now it has been checked over and probably paid.
But, did you notice one item on your bill that waa shown as a separate amount from the charge for service - the 10% Wartime Excise Tax on local and long distance telephone service your telephone company must collect from you and turn over to Uncle Sam? ?.
Whether you noticed it or not, telephone users have been paying this unfair tax month in and month out for over 13 years* Actually it was started in its present form during World War II - when emergency funds were needed and telephone facilities were scarce.
However, the war has been Vver for nearly 14 years and telephone facilities are now reasonably plentiful - but this so-called temporary Wartime Excise Tax still appears on your telephone bull, adding a full 107c to the amount you pay for your telephone service.
We have made our thoughts on the tax known to those m Washington who have the power to legislate the laws that govern this big country of ours. But, we believe action will be taken only^when the nation’s telephone subscribers speak up and urge their Washington representatives to end the 10% Wartime Exc’se Tax on telephone
service.
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