Now, that our one convenient monthly bill includes Internet, TV, landline and three cell phones, it exceeds the rent we paid in 1977 on our Mary Street apartment in Belleville, N.J.
Here are some of the taxes we found on our 'phone' bill:
PAGE 3
Federal Subscriber Line Charge - $6.29
Federal Universal Service Fee - .64
CREDIT - Federal Universal Service Fund Surcharge - .57
Federal Excise Tax - .23
CREDIT State Tax - .18
E911 - .90
Federal Universal Fee - LD - $1.23
State Tax - $2.85
PAGE 4 Non-Basic Svc.
State Tax - .28
PAGE 6 FiOS TV
State Tax - $1.26
CATV Universal Access Fee - .32
PAGE 7 - Wireless
Taxes, Governmental Surcharges & Fees - $8.47
(I don't believe this, do you?)
PAGE 9 - Wireless breakdown
Wireless surcharges
Fed Universal Svc. Charge - .98
Regulatory Charge - .07
Administrative Charge - .70
Taxes, Governmental Surcharges and Fees
NJ 911 - .90
NJ State Sales Tax - $3.52
PAGE 10 - Wireless breakdown
Wireless surcharges
Fed Universal Svc. Charge - .22
Regulatory Charge - .07
Administrative Charge - .70
Taxes, Governmental Surcharges and Fees
NJ 911 - .90
NJ State Sales Tax - $1.48
PAGE 11 - Wireless breakdown
Wireless surcharges
Fed Universal Svc. Charge - .22
Regulatory Charge - .07
Administrative Charge - .70
Taxes, Governmental Surcharges and Fees
NJ 911 - .90
NJ State Sales Tax - .77
My abacus has broken, are there any math majors out there who can figure this out?
On Wednesday, for my $1.25 container of vanilla pudding, the restaurant added a sales tax and will dutifully send 9 cents to Gov. Jon Corzine. We suspect that of the 9 cents, 8.5 cents will be wasted on bureaucratic inefficiency and 2 cents will be added to the state's deficit.
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