[Federal Payment of Local Government Emergency Telephone Service Fee]
B-246517
Apr 17, 1992
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The Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested an advance decision regarding whether federal agencies should pay a state's emergency telephone service charges. GAO held that the: (1) service charges were actually taxes; and (2) federal government was constitutionally immune from paying taxes. Accordingly, USDA should not pay the charges.