How To Duck Cell Phone Taxes – Forbes.com

Cell phones have not been proven to cause cancer, so why exactly are they taxed like they do?

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Exorbitant cell phone taxes may seem like one of life’s annoyances you just can’t do anything about. In fact, as I recently discovered, you can.

This falls under the “:thunk: I shoulda thought of that!” category. I wonder if you need a “real” out of state address, like a PO box, or if it can just be any random address? East Palo Alto charges its own “Utility Tax” on my Sprint PCS account on top of California’s and federal taxes.