Oregon To Start Taxing Prepaid Cellphones
Article from Jefferson Public Radio:
Oregon cellphone users who don’t have a monthly contract will soon pay a new tax when they refill their minutes. A law that takes effect this month levies a 75 cent transaction tax on prepaid minutes. The money will fund 911 services.
There’s a big difference between my wife’s cellphone and my cellphone – and it’s not just the ringtone.
I’m on one of those two-year contracts. My wife has a prepaid plan.
That means she hasn’t had to pay Oregon’s 911 tax, which goes to operate emergency call centers.
People with land lines or cellphones on contract pay 75 cents a month. People with prepaid phones don’t pay a penny.
Republican state representative Vicki Berger, who sponsored the measure to change that, says it’s a matter of fairness: “They’re using the 911 system. They need to contribute to the 911 system.”
Berger says roughly one Oregon cellphone in five is on a prepaid plan.
The new tax will be phased in over the next year. Oregon…………………continues on Jefferson Public Radio
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