TAX FILE: Court hangs up on federal phone tax appeal
The 3% federal tax on long-distance phone service received another blow on March 30. That's when a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied a government request to rehear its decision that the tax was invalid, in a case brought by OfficeMax. The panel reported that no judge of the appeals court had requested a vote on the suggestion that the full court rehear the