A "temporary" tax created to pay for the Spanish-American War may result in higher fees for Internet telephone calls. In a notice published Friday, the IRS and Treasury Department said they are ...

A federal appeals court on Friday largely upheld a requirement that Internet phone companies like Vonage pay taxes into a fund to subsidize rural telephone service, but voice over Internet protocol ...

Last May, after several appeals courts ruled that the 3% federal telephone excise tax does not apply to most long-distance service Last May, after several appeals courts ruled that the 3% federal ...

You can use your phone or tablet for a whole lot of things. You can, of course, take photos and send text messages (even by satellite), but you handle more-surprising tasks as well, like unlocking ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Good news, telephone bill-payers: They’ve pulled the 3 percent federal excise tax, or FET, and will credit your payments next tax season.

Two southern California cities want to tax Internet phone calls, a potentially nightmarish problem surfacing just as federal utility regulators are expected to make things easier for providers of this ...

The combined tax burden on cell phones due to fees imposed by federal, state, and local governments is double the amount of the average retail sales tax, a study conducted by the Mercatus Center at ...

The Tax Foundation research shows the average American household with four phones would pay about $300 per year in taxes on a family plan costing $100 per month. “Since 2012, the average charge from ...

New York City residents pay the second highest cell phone tax rates in the nation, so high that a member of Congress is determined to prohibit the state and local governments from pushing them any ...