75 cent phone tax for anyone with a cell phone starts Tuesday
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Updated: 12:53 AM Sep 3, 2009
75 cent phone tax for anyone with a cell phone starts Tuesday
Starting Tuesday, anyone who owns a cell phone, landline phone or any other device that can call 911 will have to pay a 75 cent phone tax.
Posted: 8:24 PM Aug 31, 2009
Reporter: WEAU 13 News Staff
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Starting Tuesday, anyone who owns a cell phone, landline phone or any other device that can call 911 will have to pay a 75 cent phone tax per month.

Wisconsin Senator Scott Fitzgerald says its part of a $5 billion tax program that'll fund a 6 percent increase in the state budget. He says a previous wireless surcharge expired in July of 2008. That one helped upgrade and maintain 911 centers.

Senator Fitzgerald says the new phone tax is not beneficial during our current economic times.
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