Verizon stiffed towns on millions in taxes, but might have to pay it back

Proposed law targets Verizon, which didn't pay tax levied by two New Jersey towns.

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[Faanchou]

The "trial revealed that Verizon had substantially underestimated its market share," the Inquirer wrote. "Instead of the 44 percent to 48 percent of the borough that Verizon claimed to serve, Verizon's share was closer to 90 percent, [Judge Mary Siobhan Brennan] concluded."

"Underestimated" isn't exactly the right word to describe what Verizon did.

Yes, the correct word is obviously "misunderestimated."

 

[Faanchou]

The NJ municipalities should take a page from the playbooks of corporations such as Verizon and just nickel and dime Verizon out the ass for access to phone lines, land, etc.

"Well, if you had just paid your taxes and not tried to be a bunch of fucking weasels, we wouldn't have to do this. So instead, here are the daily access fees, land fees, stadium fees, fee processing fees..."

Ooh, "fee processing fees", I like it!
(I mean if I have to pay a BS "convenience fee" so should they )

Any other fees we can tack on? Window tax, swamp insurance?

Executed right, you don't need to. Fee processing fees obviously have to also include fees for processing fee processing fees, after all...

 

[Faanchou]

Business property/inventory taxes are extremely unwise, and I'm glad Verizon avoided them. Governments shouldn't have the right to tax anything and everything. It's pure avarice. NJ should focus on abolishing those taxes, but NJ has terrible government all the way down, which explains this and a lot of other things.

Taxing companies for providing phone service is a great way to increase the cost of phone service.

Al Qaeda / ISIS? The Chinese military? Not in their wildest dreams could they hope to cause as much damage to the United States as millions of people such as this guy. Millions of short-sighted and greedy nitwits who would gladly sit in their coastally-flooded hovel, watching their screeching and deformed progeny smashing a tin of dog food against a rock in a vain attempt to open it, nodding sagely and thinking "And I didn't pay any taxes; just the way God intended. Welp, better get back to foraging" before heading back out into the wilds to look for berries and tubers.

Ah. Don't think we didn't notice the socialistic prevalence of dog food tins in that vision.