US mobile phone owners get tax refund

Nine federal courts have ruled that a three percent federal tax doesn't apply to phone calls that are priced only by how long a person talks and not by how far the call travels.

It means that mobiles Internet phone service and about one-third of long distance calls would be exempt from the tax and taxpayers also would be due three years of refunds.

However, before heavy phone users start to wonder what to do with the refund, it looks like that the federal government is likely to put the brakes on people collecting their cash.

Apparently it is still collecting the tax and requires so much paperwork for refunds that only big corporations are likely to bother.

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