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Ken Schmidt
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A court has upheld the Maryland cell phone tax imposed on cellular and wireless services. Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile challenged the tax, but the cell phone tax was found legal under Maryland law.
Qualifying as an excise tax, the cell phone tax is estimated to have raised $45 million since it began in August 2003.