hereafter organized or incorporated by any other state or by the
United States or any foreign government, and doing business in
this Commonwealth, and every copartnership, person or persons
owing, operating or leasing to or from another corporation,
company, association, joint-stock association, limited
partnership, copartnership, person or persons, any pipeline,
conduit, steamboat, canal, slack water navigation, or other
device for the transportation of freight, passengers, baggage,
or oil, except motor vehicles and railroads, and every limited
partnership, association, joint-stock association, corporation
or company engaged in, or hereinafter engaged in, the
transportation of freight or oil within this State, and every
telephone company, telegraph company or provider of mobile
telecommunications services now or hereafter incorporated or
organized by or under any law of this Commonwealth, or now or
hereafter organized or incorporated by any other state or by the
United States or any foreign government and doing business in
this Commonwealth, and every limited partnership, association,
joint-stock association, copartnership, person or persons,
engaged in telephone or telegraph business or providing mobile
telecommunications services in this Commonwealth, shall pay to
the State Treasurer, through the Department of Revenue, a tax of
forty-five mills with a surtax equal to five mills upon each
dollar of the gross receipts of the corporation, company or
association, limited partnership, joint-stock association,
copartnership, person or persons received from:
* * *
(2) telegraph or telephone messages transmitted wholly
within this State and telegraph or telephone messages
transmitted in interstate commerce where such messages originate
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