Apparently California is the 9th worse state when it comes to adding on taxes to cell phone bills. I'm paying an extra $8 or so every month to the state on my $60 shared plan when, if I still lived in Arizona, I could be paying around $6.50. Better yet, if I moved to Las Vegas (um, yeah), Nevada would only ask for less than a buck.

I wish I would've thought of this first, but since most cell phone companies base your taxes on your billing address, it means you can duck taxes by shifting your billing address to a cheap state and starting paperless billing. You won't even have to change your phone number.

I called Cingular today and the CSR said I could change my billing address, keep my numbers, and my phone plans wouldn't be affected. My parents live in Hawaii, which is pretty good for cell phone taxes, so I think I'm going to just use my parents address for billing purposes and send a little money to our 50th state.