The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
TELECOM
Wireless Taxes
A new report by the Tax Federation concludes that the average rates of taxes and fees on wireless telephone services are more than two times higher than the average sales tax rates that apply to most other taxable goods and services. According to the report:
New York
The PSC has ordered that intrastate originating access charges be reduced to the level of interstate originating access charges in two steps, in January 2015 and January 2016. All LECs must file tariffs by 11/30/14, reducing their intrastate originating access rates by 50% of the differential between those rates and the carrier's interstate rates for comparable service in effect on January 1, 2015. Small ILECs will be allowed to recover some of their lost revenues from the State Universal Service Fund (SUSF). TMI Regulatory Bulletin Service subscribers see Bulletin dated 10/7/14.