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		<title>Court to DirecTV, Dish: Pay up in taxing case</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/court-directv-pay-taxing/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Pariente]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Florida Cable Telecommunications Association]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peggy A. Quince]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[An appellate court on Wednesday ordered satellite-television companies to pay legal and other costs in a long-standing tax case they lost earlier this year. After DirecTV and Dish Network sued, the Florida Supreme Court in April decided satellite TV can be taxed at a higher rate than cable TV. The case was remanded to the 1st District Court of Appeal, which now has ordered the companies to pony up costs to the Florida Department of Revenue, the Florida Cable Telecommunications Association and others. The&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Communications technologies, consumer choices, could end-run taxation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Powers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[internet video streaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Geller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taxes that Florida and many local governments collect on phone, cable and other communication services are in steady decline for the same reasons as land-line telephones: people are finding different, better, and cheaper ways to consumer communications. An explosion in popularity of Internet video services such as Netflix and Hulu, combined with other technology and consumer choice advances, and the consequential falling telecommunication prices, are antiquating Florida&#8217;s communication services tax structure. And so the Florida House Ways and Means Committee, briefed on the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Supreme Court OKs taxing satellite TV higher than cable</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/supreme-court-oks-taxing-satellite-tv-higher-cable/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1st District Court of Appeal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Pariente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications services tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Cable Telecommunications Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy A. Quince]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satellite TV]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Satellite-television service can be taxed at a higher rate than cable TV, the Florida Supreme Court decided Thursday. Satellite companies had challenged the state&#8217;s 16-year-old Communications Services Tax (CST), which now taxes cable service at 4.92 percent and satellite at 9.07 percent. Those concerns, led by DirecTV, said that difference was unconstitutional and asked for a refund. But the high court reversed the 1st District Court of Appeal’s 2-1 decision, which said that taxing the two services differently is unconstitutional. Then-1st DCA Judge Simone Marstiller, in her&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Senate tax cut proposal OK&#8217;d — with one big switch</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/senate-tax-cut-switch/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anitere Flores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Associated Industries of Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications services tax]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Florida Insurance Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Negron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Javier Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelli Stargel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satellite TV]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A tax cut that would have helped a broader swath of Floridians, including the middle class and working poor, was changed Tuesday to instead benefit the state&#8217;s business owners. With no debate, the Senate&#8217;s Finance and Tax Appropriations Subcommittee cleared the bill (SB 378) by a 4-0 vote.  As initially proposed by Miami-Dade Republican Anitere Flores, it would have paid for a cut in the state’s communications services tax (CST) on mobile phone, satellite and cable TV service by repealing a tax break to insurers. The&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Business groups oppose tax break swap</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A coalition of Florida business groups is giving the thumbs-down to state Sen. Anitere Flores&#8217; proposal to pay for a cut in the state&#8217;s tax on mobile phone and satellite and cable TV service by repealing a tax break to insurers. The legislation (SB 378) would swap the insurance break for a 2 percent reduction in the state’s communications services tax (CST). The proposal is a priority of Senate President Joe Negron, a Stuart Republican. Negron earlier this year said he was looking to eliminate the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anitere Flores wants to replace one tax cut with another</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/anitere-flores-tax-cut/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anitere Flores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a move sure to ire the insurance industry, state Sen. Anitere Flores is proposing a cut in the state tax on mobile phone and satellite and cable TV service by repealing a tax break to insurers. Flores, the Senate President pro Tempore, on Friday said she was filing legislation (SB 378) to swap the insurance break for a 2 percent reduction in the state’s communications services tax (CST). The proposal is a priority of Senate President Joe Negron, a Stuart Republican.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pam Bondi makes progress on Frontier service problems</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/pam-bondi-makes-progress-frontier-service-problems/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 10:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complaints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frontier Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landline]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pam Bondi came ready to rumble against Frontier Communications — and it looks like she won.  The state&#8217;s attorney general announced Thursday the Connecticut-based telecommunications company had &#8220;committed to improving communications and customer services in Florida.&#8221; “After a lengthy, productive meeting with Frontier executives, I am cautiously optimistic that Frontier disruptions in services will be quickly resolved,” Bondi said in a statement. &#8220;However, my office will continue to work with the company on each consumer complaint until they are all appropriately&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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