Officials in Fort Collins, Colo., decided last year that Internet providers were subject to a city sales tax on telephone service and that subscribers would have to pay a 3 percent sales tax on top of their monthly access fee.
Many customers stopped using the telephone service when they learned they would have to pay a sales tax.
mnli hypothesis: Many customers stopped using the telephone service when they learned they would have to pay a sales tax. premise: Officials in Fort Collins, Colo., decided last year that Internet providers were subject to a city sales tax on telephone service and that subscribers would have to pay a 3 percent sales tax on top of their monthly access fee.