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 In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress delegated its taxing power to the Federal Communications Commission. FCC then subdelegated the taxing power to a private corporation. That private corporation, in turn, relied on for-profit telecommunications companies to determine how much American citizens would be forced to pay for the "universal service" tax that appears on cell phone bills across the Nation. We hold this misbegotten tax violates Article I, § 1 of the Constitution.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/5th-circuit-court-upends-fcc-universal-service-fund-ruling-it-an-illegal-tax/