[State of Tennessee: 9-1-1 Emergency Number Fee]
B-230691
May 12, 1988
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The Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested a decision regarding whether it should pay a state's emergency telephone service charges for telephone calls. GAO held that: (1) the service charges were actually taxes; and (2) states could not require the federal government to pay taxes. Accordingly, USDA should not pay the charges.