Amendment #220 to H3400

An Amendment Relative to Equitable Cell Phone Taxation

Representatives Cutler of Duxbury, Cantwell of Marshfield, Zlotnik of Gardner and Chan of Quincy move to amend the bill by adding the following section:

Section XXXX.  Section 6 of chapter 64H of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting the following new section

(yy) Allowances afforded to a purchaser in a bundled cellular telephone transaction, so-called. For the purposes of this subsection, allowances exempt from taxation shall be the difference between the amount the dealer charges for a particular telephone in a bundled transaction and the price the dealer would charge for that same telephone in an unbundled transaction.