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Article: Hanging up the phone tax.(Spanish American War, 1898)(Brief article)
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- Sojourners Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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The federal excise tax on long-distance phone calls, which began as part of the Spanish-American War effort in 1898, was repealed in May by the U.S. Treasury Department. Thousands of war tax resisters have fused to pay the federal phone tax since the mid-1960s, P" when the tax was extended to assist military operations in Vietnam. The tax, which has varied from 1 to 10 percent, raised nearly $89 billion from 1966 to 2001 and $6 billion per year since, according to the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.
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