Court Ruling: Washington state Business and Occupation (B&O) surcharge increase starting 6/1/12 has been canceled.

Those of you in Washington State will be happy to know that due to a new court ruling, Sprint will NOT be passing along a fee as originally planned on June 1.

• The Washington state Business and Occupation (B&O) surcharge increase starting 6/1/12 has been canceled.


• Bill messages will not begin on 5/1/12.


• In addition, the current surcharge of .471% was discontinued on 5/1/12.
  
  
  
  • The surcharge is being removed because Sprint has revisited the decision to recover the Washington Business and Occupation tax costs as a surcharge in light of a recent court ruling.
  
  
  • Sprint is not currently issuing credits.
  
  
  
  

Why you need to know it:

• Some of the non-government fee and surcharge documents have been updated to include these surcharge updates and this information is no longer valid.


• These documents are in the process of being updated with the current information.

What you need to do:

• Be aware the Washington state Business and Occupations charge has been canceled.


• If you come across any inaccurate information in a document, please disregard the information.


• Remember the documents will be updated soon to reflect the current and accurate information.