The good news: Thanks to increased competition, wireless companies’ rates have dropped nearly 7% since 2008.
The bad news: Average federal, state and local taxes and fees for California customers reached a record 18%, meaning that the government’s slice of your wireless bill is now at least twice as high as the state sales tax imposed on most other goods and services.
Those eye-opening stats come courtesy of the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, which said in areport last week that wireless customers nationwide are paying about $5.8 billion annually in state and local taxes and fees — on top of an additional $5 billion in federal wireless surcharges.
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