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
- Oregon 6.86%
- Nevada 7.13%
- Idaho 7.25%
- Montana 11.08%
- West Virginia 11.28%
- Delaware 11.30%
- Louisiana 11.33%
- Virginia 11.61%
- Alaska 11.74%
- Connecticut 12.01%
- Maine 12.21%
- Michigan 12.32%
- Alabama 12.50%
- Hawaii 12.80%
- Massachusetts 12.86%
- Iowa 12.96%
- Wyoming 12.99%
- Ohio 13.00%
- New Hampshire 13.23%
- Wisconsin 13.39%
- Vermont 13.55%
- Georgia 13.62%
- New Jersey 13.92%
- Mississippi 14.13%
- Minnesota 14.43%
- North Carolina 14.48%
- South Carolina 14.57%
- Indiana 14.89%
- Colorado 15.45%
- Kentucky 15.47%
- New Mexico 15.57%
- California 15.72%
- North Dakota 15.73%
- Oklahoma 15.79%
- Arkansas 16.12%
- Tennessee 16.63%
- Arizona 17.02%
- South Dakota 17.07%
- Utah 17.21%
- Maryland 17.28%
- Texas 17.48%
- Kansas 18.39%
- Pennsylvania 19.13%
- Missouri 19.28%
- Rhode Island 19.67%
- Illinois 20.90%
- Florida 21.62%
- New York 22.83%
- Washington 23.00%
- Nebraska 23.69%
Good old Nebraska. Outside of the conservative rhetoric, it’s all about taxes for the little guy.
Dang even Cali got better tax rate than Texas haha