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7 <br /> Page 40 <br /> Attitudes toward broadening the <br /> telephone tax <br /> Not sure <br /> 10°/a <br /> Good idea <br /> 40% <br /> Bad idea <br /> 50% <br /> While 40 percent thought this was a good idea, 50 percent opposed it with the remaining 10 <br /> percent unsure. Those who thought broadening the tax was a good idea were most likely to <br /> include those who thought that the five percent rate was too low, those who also supported <br /> broadening the t� but reducing the rate, those who voted in only one of three recent <br /> elections and those who preferred to take the survey in Spanish. Those who opposed <br /> broadening the tax were most likely to include those who also opposed broadening the tax <br /> and cutting the rate, those who prefer to let the telephone tax expire, and those who thought <br /> that the entire utility users tax is a bad idea. <br /> The tax rate on telephone calls <br /> Next, respondents were asked, if the city decides to change the law to keep the tax on <br /> telephone calls, whether it should maintain the tax rate at five percent or reduce it to four <br /> percent. They were told that if the city reduced the tax rate the loss of revenue would be <br /> $500,000. <br /> Attitudes toward reducing the rate if the <br /> tax is broadened <br /> Not sure <br /> 13% <br /> ' �r'�'!"�� <br /> �� �)( �r �� Keep tax at <br /> ,, �; ;,,, i� � i 5% <br /> �b �,i� <br /> � 41% <br /> Reduce tax <br /> to 4% <br /> 46% <br /> Respondents were evenly split on this question. Forty-one percent supported keeping the tax <br /> rate at five percent but 46 percent supported reducing the rate to four percent. Those most <br /> -6- <br />