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Show Phone tax reduction noted by Continental Inflation battered consumers consum-ers will receive some relief in 1978 -$360 million in savings thanks to the steady decline of the federal excise tax on telephone bills, announced Grant T. Callister, Utah Customer Cus-tomer Services Manager of Continental Telephone Company Comp-any of the West. Beginning Jan. 1 this tax dropped from 5 per cent of the bill to 4 per cent. The decrease de-crease started several years ago as the result of Congressional Congres-sional action and will continue declining 1 per cent annually until Jan. 1, 1982, when the levy is eliminated. The tax savings represents the estimated difference between be-tween what customers would BACK TO SLC Miss Susy Allen has returned return-ed to Salt Lake City after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Allen Sr. and family. have paid in 1978 at the 5 per cent rate, and what they will pay at the new 4 per cent rate. Some $60 million of the total will be saved by customers of Independent telephone companies, comp-anies, according to estimates by the U.S. Independent Telephone Tele-phone Association. The remainder re-mainder of the savings will apply to Bell System customers. custom-ers. The association represents the interests of the nation's 1,600 non-Bell System telephone tele-phone companies serving more than 29 million telephones tele-phones - one out of every five in the nation. Callister said, the excise tax was first imposed by Congress Con-gress during World War I as a VISIT ST. GEORGE Mrs. Genevieve Holyoak returned re-turned last week from St. George, Utah where she spent the Christmas holidays with her son, Rulon Holyoak and family. "temporary" measure. Although Al-though repealed briefly after the war, it was reinstituted during the Depression and has continued ever since at rates as high as 15 per cent on local service and 25 per cent on long distance calls. From 1954 to 1971 it stood at 10 per cent. |