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Litigation

Aug. 15, 2015

City of Los Angeles agrees to refund $92.5 million in phone taxes

Preliminary settlement approval was granted Thursday in a suit over allegedly illegal telephone utility taxes collected between 2005 and 2008 on more than 2 million residents and businesses.


By America Hernandez


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A $92.5 million settlement between the City of Los Angeles and more than 2 million
residents and businesses over allegedly illegal utility taxes was preliminarily approved
Thursday after nearly nine years of dispute.


All Los Angeles residents who were charged telephone utility taxes between October
2005 and March ...

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