Florida Cell Phone Taxes/Charges
I'm a Florida resident with a out-of-state phone that has bunch of local charges and taxes. I'm wondering if a Florida (Monroe County) cell phone has a bunch of charges?
Forum Discussion
rockhillmanor wrote:PackerBacker wrote:
I use an AT&T Go Phone with unlimited talk, text and data. It has an upstate NY area code where I use it in the summer months and in SC in the winter. Other than my one total monthly usage fee, I don't see any state taxes anywhere.
My old cell was a GoPhone registered in Wisconsin and it had city, county, usage taxes you name it added on. :R
GoPhone/ATT told me each state taxes where thenumber originates
was different. No matter where I bought the prepaid card when I loaded it I always was charged the Wisconsin tax.
I.E. load a 25.00 card and would get only 23.00 applied.
My question of Straight Talk is if I am traveling and buy a prepaid card in another state then I pay THAT states tax charge?
They can't go by my cell phone number because the card when purchased does not include it. So the assumption being the 'card' itself is being taxed by each Walmart? Simply as a money maker?
Maybe for the taxing authority but not for Walmart in your scenario. Remember, sales taxes charged by retailers is a strong arm technique to make the business the tax collector and administrator for the state, city etc. I would much rather NOT have to collect the tax, file the returns, and remit the tax back to the state but that is just the way it is.
