Resolution 05763RESOLUTION NO. 5763
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY CF ALAMEDA
URGING AND REQUESTING THAT THE FEDERAL EXCISE TAX
. ON TELEPHONE SERVICE BE REPEALED.
WHEREAS, the excise tax on telephone service was o ar time measure,
intended to discoura4e the 0,36 of vital communication facilities; and
WHEREAS, the need for such has lomr . since ceased; and
WHEREAS, the telephone is a necessity in our modern economy and tinder no
circumstances may be termed a luxury; and
WHEEEAS, naid excise tax is discriminatory in that othar vital utility
services are not to taxed;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF i616 CITY OF ALAMEDA that
the Congress of the United States is hereby urged and requested to repeal the bur-
densome and highly discriminatory telephone excise tax.
5E IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the City of Alameda in
hereby directed to transmit certified copies of this resolution to all pertinent
parties.
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I, the undersiFred, hereby certify that ,the roregni g Resolution was duly
and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in regu-
lar meeting assembled on the ist day of April, 1956, by the following vote, to wit:
A5'5-: Councilman Collischoun, Freeman, Petersen, Schacht and
President McCall, (5).
NOES: _None.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I. have hereunto set my hard and affixed the official
seal of said City this 2nd jay of April, 1958,
SHIRLEY H. TENNIER
(SEAL) City 'Clerk of the City ofTElameda
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I hcreby certify that the fore,soing is a full, trtle and correct copy uf
"Resolution No. 5763, RESOLUTION OF TEE COUNCIL OF 1r61 CITY OM ALAMEDA ITF-aG1"C AND
REQUESTING TH,,T THE FEDERF,L EXCIS2 TAX OR TELEPHONE SERVICE BE REPEALED,' intro-
duced and adopted by the Council on the 1st day of April, 1558.