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  1. Your Donations Through Your Telephone Monopoly Subsidizes Evil
    1. Subsidizing Evil (General Article)
    2. BellSouth to sponsor ‘Atlanta Pride’ festival
    3. Bell South Advertising Supports Gay Agenda
  2. Your Donations Through Your Telephone Monopoly are Illegal!
    1. A Discovery by Albert Coombs Regarding Telephone Taxes
    2. Regulation 57 Condemnes Telephone Taxes!
    3. Tax on Talk
    4. IRS to Refund $15 Billion of Telephone Taxes
    5. Reese bros v. United States (telephone tax)


Your Donations Through Telephone Monopolies Subsidize Evil

Subsidizing Evil
Whenever as individuals in our charity, or as a nation in that false charity known as foreign aid and welfare, we give a subsidy to any kind of evil, we are guilty before God of that evil, unless we separate ourselves from the subsidy by our protest. An article by Rev. R.J. Rushdoony on May 18, 2005.

BellSouth to sponsor ‘Atlanta Pride’ festival
BellSouth will help advance a lifestyle that continually leads to death, disease, and personal anguish.”—Randy Sharp, American Family Association.

Bell South advertises with "gay radio" (requires Adobe Reader).
See page 6 Miami outlet playing up "gay radio."

Your Donations Through Telephone Monopolies are Illegal!

A Discovery by Albert Coombs Regarding Telephone Taxes
Read how the government has stonewalled a man fighting illegal telephone universal service charges.

Imposition of Tax (Requires Adobe Reader)
Regulations No. 57 (revised July, 1920) Relating to the tax on telegraph, telephone, radio, and cable facilities under the provisions of the revenue act of 1918.

Tax on Talk! In 1898 , President McKinley imposed the Federal Excise Tax law, or "Tax on Talk." It was supposed to be a temporary "Luxury Tax" on the very wealthy - who were the only ones that had phones at the time. But a grassroots move is underway to wipe out this unfair and outrageous tax! There are bills now in Congress to repeal this outdated and unfair tax - and we need your help...GO TO: MyWireless.org and tell your Senators and Representatives to support S.1321 and HR 1898 to repeal the Tax on Talk!! The Spanish-American War ended 107 years ago - so why are you still paying a 3% monthy excise tax to help fund it?!!

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IRS to Refund $15 Billion of Telephone Taxes to Consumers

The Treasury Department and IRS announced this morning that after losing in five circuit courts of appeals, the Government is throwing in the towel and will no longer seek to enforce the 3% excise tax on long-distance telephone calls enacted during the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a "luxury" tax on wealthy Americans who owned telephones.  The IRS will will issue $15 billion in refunds to consumers for long-distance telephone service taxes paid over the past three years:

  • No immediate action is required by taxpayers.
  • Refunds will be a part of 2006 tax returns filed in 2007.
  • Refund claims will cover all excise tax paid on long-distance service over the last three years (time allowed given statute of limitations).
  • Interest will be paid on refunds.
  • The IRS is working on a simplified method for individuals to use to claim a refund on their 2006 tax returns.
  • Refunds will not include tax paid on local telephone service, which was not involved in the litigation.

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