Wyoming lawmakers examine tax for prepaid cellphones
Article from Casper Star-Tribune Online:
SHERIDAN — A state legislative committee ordered its staff to draft a bill that would add a 911 tax to prepaid cellphones.
The bill would tax people 1.5 percent when they purchase prepaid cell services in Wyoming.
Prepaid customers don’t pay the tax now. But other cellphone customers and land line customers pay it.
The tax pays for emergency service dispatch centers throughout the state, said Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, co-chairman of the Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee, which met at Sheridan City Hall on Wednesday and discussed the issue.
A handful of wireless companies presented the committee a model bill that called for the tax. Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia have enacted bills that require the tax to be paid at the po…………………continues on Casper Star-Tribune Online
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