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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:36:15 PST
- From: reb@ingres.com (Phydeaux)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: IBT Raises Pay Phone Rates to 30c "Temporarily"
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- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 858, Message 7 of 13
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- I just heard on the radio that Illinois Bell plans to raise pay phone
- rates by 5c to 30c until they raise 30 million dollars. I forget what
- they "need" the money for, I think it was to pay for something they
- did that they shouldn't have. After they raise the money they "plan"
- to lower the rate back to 25c.
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- [Moderator's Note: It was NOT to 'pay for something they did they
- shouldn't have ...'; it is to compensate for the dizzy ruling from a
- judge here saying that taxes have to be collected on pay phone calls.
- Since pay phones cannot accept pennies and there is a tax on local
- phone calls courtesy of our city council, IBT had been spreading the
- pay phone portion of the tax -- being unable to collect a penny or two
- from each pay phone user -- among all subscribers. All of us pay City
- of Chicago tax on our phone bills; it was perhaps ten or fifteen cents
- per month more than it would have been had pay phone users been paying
- the tax also. IBT had to refund several year's worth of pro-rated taxes
- collected from subscribers (I got, I think, fifteen cents per month
- refund covering several years of service) as a credit on the phone
- bill back in September. At the same time, pay phone calls were raised
- five cents so the tax could be collected. PAT]
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