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26 CFR 49.4254-2: -2 Payment for toll telephone service or telegraph service in coin-operated telephones.

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  1. Title 26—Internal Revenue
  2. CHAPTER I—INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
  3. SUBCHAPTER D—MISCELLANEOUS EXCISE TAXES
  4. PART 49—FACILITIES AND SERVICES EXCISE TAXES
  5. Subpart C—Communications

Where the tax on a toll telephone or radio telephone message or conversation, or a telegraph, cable, or radio dispatch or message is paid by inserting coins in a coin-operated telephone, the tax shall be computed to the nearest multiple of 5 cents, and where the tax is midway between multiples of 5 cents, the next highest multiple shall apply. In other words, one-half or a greater fraction of 5 cents shall be treated as 5 cents and a smaller fraction shall be ignored.

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