CTIA Lobbies for Mass. Tax Breaks on Broadband Equipment
CTIA is backing a pair of bills in Massachusetts that would exempt broadband equipment purchases for network expansions and improvements from sales and use taxes. The bills, H-3119 and S-1996, were among an array of telecommunications bills on the agenda…
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for a hearing Friday before the Massachusetts Legislature's Revenue Joint Committee, but there was no testimony about them. In a letter last week to state Sen. James Eldridge (D), the committee's chairman, CTIA said Massachusetts is one of three Northeast states with a tax on broadband equipment investments, while Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania don't impose sales or use taxes, and Delaware and New Hampshire don't impose sales taxes. Current law “puts Massachusetts at a competitive disadvantage,” the group said. An exemption “would ensure that every dollar invested in Massachusetts would go into networks serving Massachusetts citizens.”