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I can understand your point about the phone, but the 911 service is a lot more than just a phone. When 911 equipment is installed, call tracing, mapping etc. is in play. This results in reduce response times for emergency vehicles.

BUT....

This issue of taxes for this service is completely different. There are pros and cons for the taxing of "telephone traffic". If everyone switched to VOIP, the schools would be left to wander in the desert when it comes to IT infrastructure. Of course, your property taxes or local income taxes or whatever revenue streams you school uses would increase to compensate, but then who would be paying for it?

I can't answer the questions. The big issue here is who has the authority to levee the taxes in the first place. Because of it's nature of using the "net" instead of physical "POP's" the states really can't regulate it. For that matter neither can the Feds.

The best analogy I can give you is the scam that MCI was doing to AT&T:

MCI would route calls through their switches in Canada to avoid paying charges to AT&T for using their facilities. Likewise with VOIP a phone call could be bouncing off routers in Mexico, Canada or elsewhere depending on routing algorithms. Neither the states nor the Feds can force a router to use a certain route, and likewise they couldn't properly tax that traffic without some serious hardware and software to perform route tracing on every single VOIP call made.

You got any ideas?
Posted by: htotten   Posted on: 01/05/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Vonage  Joe Blow_z | 01/04/05
Huh?  Letophoro | 01/05/05
911 "Service"  Roger Ramjet | 01/05/05
One tax...  htotten | 01/05/05
Sales tax GAAACK!  Roger Ramjet | 01/05/05
Transaction Tax  htotten | 01/05/05
Ah yes, young grasshopper  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
Tax every bank transaction?  MissAnnThrop | 01/07/05
Wrong  rapson | 01/05/05
Do you work for a phone company?  ac2_z | 01/05/05
sales tax to on-line purchases  htotten | 01/05/05
Vonage should be taxed 75%  James T. Kirk | 01/05/05
Just think...  rapson | 01/05/05
Nor would there be...  James T. Kirk | 01/05/05
No tax on any service  seadog59 | 01/05/05
That's not really the issue...  John L. Ries | 01/05/05
The Bogus 911 / rural arguement.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/05/05
Sort of agreement  htotten | 01/05/05
Yeap Bogus indeed.  Been_Done_Before | 01/05/05
Let me borrow your soap box...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/05/05
Hidden taxes are what i am complaining about.  Been_Done_Before | 01/06/05
Taxes show up in one place?  sometime | 05/06/05

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