Lobby VZW to make old bills available online for Fed Excise Tax refund calcs

If you had VZW coverage from Feb 2003 through July 2006, you are
entitled to collect a refund on your 2006 taxes the 3% the company
included on these bills for the Federal Excise Tax. In my case, this
3% ends up being much more than the standard $30-$60 credit the IRS
allows you to select as a default. However, VZW only makes available
online the past 6 or 7 months of bills, so proof cannot be gathered
for prior bills to make this calculation (unless you pay $5-$6/bill
and wait 8 weeks for a copy from VZW).

In contrast, ATT.com has provided online to its customers access to
*all* of the bills during this period in PDF form, despite its normal
procedure of only providing the last 6 months of bills. ATT.com has
taken the extra step for its customers while VZW has not regarding
this issue.

If you find it worth your while, go to VZW's customer service link and
select "feedback" for "website" and make a request for these past
bills to be made available online in PDF form as ATT.com has. I'm
hoping that if more people make such a request, VZW will react quickly
now that tax season is upon us.

Regards,
Chris

On 29 Jan 2007 10:49:41 -0800, "Chris" <chris_in_sunnyvale@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>If you had VZW coverage from Feb 2003 through July 2006, you are
>entitled to collect a refund on your 2006 taxes the 3% the company
>included on these bills for the Federal Excise Tax.

Could you please provide a source to verify this?

A_C

On Jan 29, 12:02 pm, Agent_C <Agent-C-hates-s...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2007 10:49:41 -0800, "Chris" <chris_in_sunnyv...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >If you had VZW coverage from Feb 2003 through July 2006, you are
> >entitled to collect a refund on your 2006 taxes the 3% the company
> >included on these bills for the Federal Excise Tax.
>
>Could you please provide a source to verify this?
>
> A_C

Gladly...

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/...164032,00.html

If you have any copies of a bill prior to July 2006, you'll see a
"federal tax" listed. If you do the math, you'll see that it is 3% of
your bill (your monthly plan rate + VZW surcharges + state & local
taxes...yes, the feds tax other taxes). This is the federal excise
tax that you are entitled to be refunded for the 41 months after
2/28/03 to 8/1/06. VZW cellular service falls under the "bundled
service" mentioned in the link.

Regards,
Chris

On 29 Jan 2007 12:10:59 -0800, "Chris" <chris_in_sunnyvale@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Gladly...
>
>http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/...164032,00.html

Thanks.

The standard deduction the IRS is offering for this seems unduly low.
On my relatively low priced plan, it came out to about $56.00 - almost
double the paltry $30 they're offering.

I could see Verizon and other major carriers providing one time
statements, sort of like a 1099, for this. It should be easy enough to
pull out of their computers.

A_C