Lower Cell Phone Taxes from State Tax List 2012

Look at your phone bill right now. You may be paying up to 24% tax on your total bill. Imagine you have a family plan and you are paying a quarter of your bill toward taxes. That is insane! Every major carrier now allows you to pay your cell phone and receive your statements online, hence you could be paying less tax by picking a different home address. E.G. I have a family plan with 5 lines. My parents and siblings are living in different States. From the list below, it seems my parents’ address has the lowest paying cell phone tax. The switch can be done in my account simply by changing the address to my parents. It’s legit since we have lines there. No need for me to receive paper statements, so I switch to paperless.

2011 Combined Federal-State-Local Rate

1. Oregon  6.86%
2. Nevada  7.13%
3. Idaho  7.25%
4. Montana  11.08%
5. West Virginia  11.28%
6. Delaware  11.30%
7. Louisiana  11.33%
8. Virginia  11.61%
9. Alaska 11.74%
10. Connecticut  12.01%
11. Maine  12.21%
12. Michigan  12.32%
13. Alabama  12.50%
14. Hawaii  12.80%
15. Massachusetts  12.86%
16. Iowa  12.96%
17. Wyoming  12.99%
18. Ohio  13.00%
19. New Hampshire  13.23%
20. Wisconsin  13.39%
21. Vermont  13.55%
22. Georgia 13.62%
23. New Jersey  13.92%
24. Mississippi  14.13%
25. Minnesota  14.43%
26. North Carolina  14.48%
27. South Carolina  14.57%
28. Indiana  14.89%
29. Colorado  15.45%
30. Kentucky  15.47%
31. New Mexico  15.57%
32. California 15.72%
33. North Dakota  15.73%
34. Oklahoma  15.79%
35. Arkansas 16.12%
36. Tennessee 16.63%
37. Arizona 17.02%
38. South Dakota 17.07%
39. Utah  17.21%
40. Maryland  17.28%
41. Texas 17.48%
42. Kansas  18.39%
43. Pennsylvania  19.13%
44. Missouri  19.28%
45. Rhode Island 19.67%
46. Illinois 20.90%
47. Florida 21.62%
48. New York  22.83%
49. Washington  23.00%
50. Nebraska  23.69%

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