Have you ever looked at all of the charges added to your phone bill? The actual charges for my home phone line is $26.50 per month.
- Extended Area Calling - $1.00
- Residence Line - $11.00
- Jack and phone Insurance - $5.95
- Caller ID - $6.95
- Non-Published Service - $1.60
That’s fine. I don’t mind paying $26.50 for a phone line BUT that’s not all. I also HAVE to pay
- Federal Excise Tax - $1.04
- State Sales Tax - $1.94
- City Sales Tax - $.61
- Recovery of Municipal Telecommunications Tax - $1.55
- State 911 - $0.13
- Local 911 - $0.65
- Federal Universal Serv Fund - $0.70
- Utah Universal Service Fund - $0.24
- Telecommunications Relay Service Fund - $0.10
- Utah Poison Control Center Surcharge - $0.07
- Federal Access Charge - $6.44
Total $13.36
Grand total monthly phone bill - $39.86
Thirty-five percent of my phone bill goes to taxes, fees, and surcharges. I can’t think of anything else I buy where there is an additional 35% in taxes and fees added to the cost, except maybe gasoline.
I have been pushing Shelly to let me cancel our Qwest line and just use our cell phones as our home phone but she’s not budging.
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You could always get Vonage like me! :p~
Uhm, you mean the phone service you use that never works?
But you get the same problem on cell phones too - I think my last bill had an extra 25% added on in taxes. Personally I think this should be investigated under false advertising laws when they advertise $50/month service but then bill you about $65
You’re right Andy. I was thinking about that after I posted. I used to work for Sprint and we had so many people coming into the store to complain about their bill, with charges that nobody could ever explain.