Sprint Nextel needs not fear Errand Boy Eric Scheiderman the man

who keeps his mouth shut and allows Nassau OTB only to close on Roman Catholic Easter and Roman Catholic Palm Sunday and not Greek Orthodox Easter and Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday. Too pay the rights of New York Bettors secured by NYConst. Art. 1, Sec. 3 can't offset the amount Eric Scheiderman is chasing Sprint Nextel for. On the other hand Sprint Nextel might make fun of New York by saying how can a bankrupt state fail to see that its OTBs are not open every day of the year just like its lottery and its slot machines? Is it any wonder Eric Schneiderman fights with lawyers who paper each other with billable hours w

APNewsBreak: Sprint-Nextel sued for NY taxes

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ALBANY, N.Y.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (SHNEYE'-dur-muhn) is suing Sprint-Nextel Corp., claiming it under-collected and underpaid $100 million in sales taxes to keep prices down.
The lawsuit is the first filed under a state law allowing the government to sue over tax losses from fraud. It could require the company to pay triple the amount it is accused of underpaying.
Schneiderman says Sprint since 2005 underpaid the tax and submitted false records.
Since 2002, New York tax law has required mobile phone companies to collect and pay sales taxes on the full amount of their monthly access fees for calling plans. Schneiderman says competitors Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and MetroPCS pay the tax.
Sprint says the complaint is "without merit" and it paid all taxes it believes its customers owe.

* §  109.  Supplementary  regulatory   powers   of   the   commission.
  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the  commission
  through its rules and regulations or  in  allotting  dates  for  racing,
  simulcasting  or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting
  is permitted shall be authorized to:
    1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on  any  or
  all  dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
  December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of  December  twenty-fifth,
  Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and
    2. fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting.
    * NB Effective October 1, 2012

APNewsBreak: Sprint-Nextel sued for NY taxes

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ALBANY, N.Y.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (SHNEYE'-dur-muhn) is suing Sprint-Nextel Corp., claiming it under-collected and underpaid $100 million in sales taxes to keep prices down.
The lawsuit is the first filed under a state law allowing the government to sue over tax losses from fraud. It could require the company to pay triple the amount it is accused of underpaying.
Schneiderman says Sprint since 2005 underpaid the tax and submitted false records.
Since 2002, New York tax law has required mobile phone companies to collect and pay sales taxes on the full amount of their monthly access fees for calling plans. Schneiderman says competitors Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and MetroPCS pay the tax.
Sprint says the complaint is "without merit" and it paid all taxes it believes its customers owe.