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Posted at 2004-07-06 22:18:03 by Declan McCullagh
in Politech category "voip"

A notice that the IRS and the Treasury Department released on Friday, when Congress was out and nobody was paying attention, suggests that a federal excise tax created to pay for the Spanish-American War should apply to phone calls made over the Internet. Read my article at News.com or the notice itself.

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http://news.com.com/IRS+eyes+Net+phone+tax...

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