This issue contains the second part of a two-part article on regulated and non-regulated charges and taxes placed on them. Unfortunately the subject of taxes as it applies to your telecom bills is broad enough to warrant a lengthy discussion.

In Part I, we covered the regulated and non-regulated charges that will appear on your bills. This issue will describe the different kinds of taxes that you will find, what they are paid for and who is exempt from them.

Taxes and tax-like charges can add as much as 25%, and more, to local telephone charges in some jurisdictions. This is an area to which no rules are universally applicable, so all generalities have exceptions. That being said, there are three “rules-of-thumb” which can be useful in understanding the taxes placed on your bills.

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