Telephone Tax refund for 2006 returns
The IRS is now offering refunds for the 3% Federal Excise Tax on long-distance telephone calls that was enacted during the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a “luxury” tax on wealthy Americans who owned telephones.
I posted about this here last May:
Telephone Tax repealed
Here is the IRS web page:
Telephone Tax Refund Questions and Answers
Makes it worth digging through your old bills if you made a lot of long distance calls...
Posted by DaveH at January 3, 2007 9:36 AM