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Article: Satellite TV tax should be grounded
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- May 22, 2003
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El Segundo-based DirecTV and EchoStar Communications Corp. of
Colorado are competitors in the satellite television marketplace, but
they are in agreement that California should reject any plans to tax
satellite TV customers.
Although no legislation to tax satellite TV viewers has been
filed, the California Commission on Tax Policy in the New Economy
seems poised to endorse the idea of an 8 percent tax on subscribers'
monthly bills.
We sympathize with lawmakers who are looking for any source of
income to close California's multibillion-dollar deficit. But this
proposal is simply not justified. That cable television operators are