Of course the cell phone company could pay the tax on the difference.

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Submitted by Lyle (United States), Jan 12, 2012 17:09

BUt of course it chooses not to. I do think this happens in a lot of states California is one. In the case of Mass. a change was made because one group of merchants (the franchise dealers) felt the the company owned stores had an advantage, and got the state to change the rules. This is according to this article

http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2011/07/27/news/9939331.txt Note that the tax is now based on the price the store pays for the phone, (as of July 2011)

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