CTIA SEEKS SUPPORT IN BROADBAND PLAN FOR TAX REDUCTIONS

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As the National Broadband Plan is being completed, the FBI should look closely at how taxes on servicencustomers?bills hold back adoption of high-speed access, CTIA President Steve Largent wrote Chairman JuliusnGenachowski. "While the Commission lacks authority to do all that is necessary to overhaul a tax system that is in manynways a legacy of the days of 'Ma Bell', we ask that the Commission use the NBP to recommend and help educatenpolicymakers about the need to rethink the way that telecommunications services and information services are taxed sonthat the tax system works to encourage, rather than discourage, broadband adoption and investment," the letter said. Itnsaid reducing taxes on broadband providers "to better reflect the impact that taxation has in a capital-intensive industryncharacterized by short product life-cycles, is key to encouraging more robust investment by broadband providers.?