{"id":62040,"date":"2018-06-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-city-of-long-beach-ca-to-provide-16-6-million-refund-to-telephone-taxpayers\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:02:12","slug":"la-ciudad-de-long-beach-california-reembolsara-16-6-millones-a-las-personas-que-han-pagado-los-impuestos-telefonicos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-ciudad-de-long-beach-california-reembolsara-16-6-millones-a-las-personas-que-han-pagado-los-impuestos-telefonicos\/","title":{"rendered":"City Of Long Beach, CA To Provide $16.6 Million Refund To Telephone Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SEATTLE<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 12, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0JND Class Action Administration<\/p>\n<p>A <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> court has preliminarily approved a <span class=\"xn-money\">$16.6 million<\/span> class action settlement for refunds of telephone taxes collected by the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Long Beach, California<\/span> from <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 11, 2005<\/span> through <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 19, 2008<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>All individuals and businesses that paid for landline telephone service with a service address in the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Long Beach<\/span>, or mobile service where the billing address was in the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Long Beach<\/span>, and who paid telephone tax on services utilized between <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 11, 2005<\/span> through <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 19, 2008<\/span> are eligible to claim a refund.\u00a0 THE DEADLINE TO FILE A REFUND CLAIM IS <span class=\"xn-chron\">SEPTEMBER 15<\/span>, 2018.\u00a0 Claims for telephone tax refunds can be submitted online, at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbtaxrefund.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.LBTaxRefund.com<\/a>, or through the mail.\u00a0 A notice and claim form will also be mailed to current addresses in the City of Long Beach.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Eligible class members have several options to file a claim, which include: (1) claim standard amounts of <span class=\"xn-money\">$27.50<\/span> for residential landline telephone service, <span class=\"xn-money\">$46.00<\/span> for business landline service, and\/or <span class=\"xn-money\">$46.00<\/span> for mobile telephone service, with no documentary evidence required; (2) submit samples of bills reflecting the telephone utility users&#8217; taxes (&#8220;UUT&#8221;) paid during the class period to receive a refund of the actual UUT paid; or (3) if bills from the class period are not available, submit a sample of recent phone bills reflecting the UUT paid to the City to receive a refund based on recent UUT amounts.\u00a0 In addition, class members who were customers of Verizon, Sprint, or T-Mobile during the <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 11, 2005<\/span> to <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 19, 2008<\/span> time period can provide consent for those carriers to search for UUT payment records. Class members may claim refunds for both landline and mobile telephone taxes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Long Beach<\/span> has agreed to pay up to a maximum of <span class=\"xn-money\">$16.6 million<\/span>.\u00a0 Undistributed funds, after attorneys&#8217; fees and costs, plaintiff&#8217;s incentive award, and notice and administration expenses are paid, will revert back to the City of Long Beach.\u00a0 For additional information, claim forms and detailed instructions on how to make a claim, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lbtaxrefund.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.LBTaxRefund.com<\/a> or call (833) 380-5573. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, <i>McWilliams v. City of Long Beach<\/i>, was brought on behalf of <span class=\"xn-location\">Long Beach, CA<\/span> taxpayers by the law offices of <span class=\"xn-person\">Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman<\/span> &amp; Herz LLP, Chimicles &amp; Tikellis LLP, <span class=\"xn-person\">Cuneo Gilbert<\/span> &amp; Laduca, LLP, and Tostrud Law Group, PC.\u00a0 The <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Long Beach<\/span> disputes the claims made in the lawsuit, but believes it is in the best interest of its residents to settle the matter rather than incur further litigation expenses. <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  JND Class Action Administration<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SEATTLE<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 12, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0JND Class Action Administration<\/p>\n<p>A <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> court has preliminarily approved a <span class=\"xn-money\">$16.6 million<\/span> class action settlement for refunds of telephone taxes collected by the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Long Beach, California<\/span> from <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 11, 2005<\/span> through <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 19, 2008<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>All individuals and businesses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}