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What is a "Property Tax Allotment Surcharge"?

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 11:08 am
by digitalbitstream
What is the "Property Tax Allotment Surcharge" I see on my bill? What's the purpose? Is a tax? A fee?

Re: What is a "Property Tax Allotment Surcharge"?

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:02 pm
by dane
It's a surcharge for the tax charged on utilities by each county. Details here: http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/sappcont.htm

Re: What is a "Property Tax Allotment Surcharge"?

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:34 pm
by Lennon Hamilton
Dan, sending us to a BOE web page is not an answer. That page has nothing about California Property Tax Allotment Surcharge. Please do your job as a leader at Sonic and explain, in detail, what California Property Tax Allotment Surcharge is.

Re: What is a "Property Tax Allotment Surcharge"?

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:49 am
by dane
Lennon Hamilton wrote:Dan, sending us to a BOE web page is not an answer. That page has nothing about California Property Tax Allotment Surcharge. Please do your job as a leader at Sonic and explain, in detail, what California Property Tax Allotment Surcharge is.
The property tax allotment surcharge (PTA) is applied to all base voice charges excluding other taxes and surcharges. This is not a tax, but a cost recovery mechanism meant to recover the cost of state-assessed property taxes on telecommunications equipment located in our service areas.

In other words, the state assesses tax on our infrastructure, and that tax is billed to our subscribers as a surcharge.

Re: What is a "Property Tax Allotment Surcharge"?

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:17 pm
by SneakyFees
Or what in the old days was known as a "business expense".

Transparency in pricing this is not.