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Dear Chris Franta,

     Having received a letter from Amy Shoenfeld, Executive and Regulatory Analyst in response to my protest and evidence that the Federal Excise tax has no law, regulation, OMB # and Form as it was repealed back in 1965, I was told to write you every month to receive credit for the FET. Since this has been on going from the latter part of 1998 when I filed suit against Sprint for this FET and other illegal charges, I am to receive credit all they way back to July 22, 1998. The Letter from Amy is enclosed. I am also enclosing the Tacit admissions from your Sprint CEO Len Lauer, that he positively states I am correct on all counts that I am not required to pay this FET.. Since fraud is involved there is no limit on the amount of time to collect or how far back to 1965 one can go.

     I find it really incredible that I still have to pay the FET to billing and then file a letter every month for credit for the FET paid to you.. Would it not be better to just not pay the tax on the bill and send the letter along with the billing amount minus the FET? But, why should I send the same letter every month to prove what? Absolutely nothing but extra paperwork. Should I bill you the 37 cents it will cost me every month also as an added expense to correct a fraud?

     Since the FET is a fraudulently collected tax in the first place, I feel that Sprint can make a simple computer command to eliminate the FET from my bill. I don't care about anyone else's Bill. Please don't tell me it can't be done as I used to work for IBM from the inception of Computers in Business back in 1956, when it was more cumbersome to do than it is today as we worked with punch cards, analog and cobol, which you have no idea what I am talking about, but your old time computer people would. This way it would save me, Sprints asinine excuse that I need to send every month a letter stating how much I paid, when Sprint interoffice computers can do the job quicker and better.. Nothing would ever change on the protest note, and, in law one notice is all that is needed.

     Even though The Len Lauer document is evidence that would satisfy the "protest Note" that Amy stated, I suggest for your further edification, go to a web site that has my whole case with the protest evidence that you need., which is www.atgpress.com . After getting there click on Cases of Importance, then click on Albert Coombs vs Sprint & AT&T. The web master tells me quite a few people are reading this particular site lately with over 9400 hits on it.

     To keep the records correct, I had deducted the FET until the US supreme court declined to hear the case because the NC Supreme Court would not make any determination for the US Supreme Court to work with. In order to keep Sprint from disconnecting my phone service, I had to pay back all amounts I had withheld. To clarify that I paid all that I withheld back to Sprint is a Letter to Sprint Dated May 27, 2001 wherein I had to pay in order to keep the service from being cut off. Exhibit A

Since Sprint collected the FET from me for AT&T, when I was paying, this should also be refunded or credited to my account. Being that is money had and received it would fall under that principle of being returned.. The Sprint billing told me back then that I could not pay AT&T directly but had to pay Sprint. Here enclosed is the FET you collected from me on the AT&T portion of Sprint's bill in total. You will see the AT&T portion on the initial bill payment protest I am sending, as well as an itemized account of AT&T FET payments to you.

Enclosed are the itemized protest payments with the FET tax in red that I needed credited.
These were sent to Sprint with every bill to be paid.
The amount of FET comes to; AT&T 88.44 + Sprint 84.43= 172.87 total credit.

Sincerely

Albert coombs