Boost Mobile Dealer Beats Alabama Sales Tax Bill on Prepayments

A Boost Mobile retailer is off the hook for over half a million dollars in sales tax assessed by Alabama, a state appeals court ruled.

The state revenue department appealed a trial court ruling that prepayments for wireless service customers made at three Cellular Express Inc. stores aren’t covered by a law imposing sales tax on long distance telephone cards.

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals affirmed that ruling May 12 in an unsigned opinion, agreeing with the trial court that the law in place when the sales occurred only covered prepaid phone cards or pin numbers used to make ...