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Are Your Telecom Taxes Right?


Are your telecom taxes right, or are you paying way too much? In almost every instance when  telecommunications billing is reviewed by a corporate department, be it the IT department, or Accounts Payable, the taxes and fees portion of the billing is completely ignored because they are assumed to be correct. After all, these are local tax, state tax and federal tax charges, and they are certainly correct, right?  Wrong.

There are over 55,000 taxing jurisdictions in the United States, all trying to get their piece of the pie, and your telecom billing is part of that pie. These taxes and fees make up a significant portion of the billing amount that you pay every month, typically nine to fourteen percent, but with the boom in wireless communications, new ways of taxing wireless services have proliferated and, in some areas, have reached a previously unheard-of 40% of the bill total.

Telecom providers generate the billing which includes the 911, USF, Access Charges, and industry specific associated state, local taxes, and fees that you receive. There is lot of billing fees for them to keep track of regarding taxation, but they aren’t the only people involved. More and more frequently we are finding errors in the tax assessments included in the telecom bills and many of these errors are refundable and can result in credits received that can go back years. It just makes sense to have your telecom billing managed by telecom bill auditing professionals with experience in not only discovering these overcharges, but in helping your company to obtain your telecom tax refunds.

Call Auditel at 800-473-565five to see if your telecom bills will bring your telecom taxrecoveries. There is nothing to lose since we offer contingency services.


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