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Government

May 3, 2012

Governments ask court to toss illegal tax suit

A group of California cities and counties today will ask a state court to throw out a lawsuit that could force them to pay back millions of dollars in wrongfully collected taxes.


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A group of California cities and counties today will ask a state court judge to throw out a lawsuit that could force them to pay back millions of dollars in wrongfully collected taxes.


For nearly five years, AT&T Mobility LLC erroneously taxed customers' wireless data plans, apparently not realizing the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act prohibits levying tax on Internet access. Now, as part of a f...

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