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Re: confirmation of credit on phone Bill with Sprint CEO Len Lauer

Dear Mrs. Sneed.

     You may not be cognizant of the matter of dispute over the Federal Excise tax (FET) I have with Sprint and that is the reason for this letter. Rather than go into a long letter or correspondence I have had with CEO and President of Sprint World Headquarters in Kansas, I will keep this short.

     After writing a letter to Mr Len Lauer and a tacit agreement that the FET regulation was repealed in 1965, the Statute repealed in 1968 and no OMB number exists because the Form for FET collection was expunged from IRS records , he informed Amy Shoenfeld, Legal and Regulatory analyst of Sprint, to settle the matter of my paying the Federal Excise tax and to give me credit on past billing, which amounted to 187 dollars. He also stated that I would not have to pay future FET. Amy, by letter, told me to send all material of the amount of credit and protest and the phone ID number to Chris Franta in Overland Kansas at the World Headquarters and he would take care of the matter.

     I did as Amy said and when nothing was credited on my November Bill I immediately sent a Fax , 11-19-04 to Len Lauer, and a letter to Amy Shoenfeld and Chris Franta, when I received a letter saying I forgot to include the phone ID number. I stated that I was not going to pay the December bill but deduct the credit each and every month until the 187 dollar credit was brought to -0- dollars. I said if that was not agreeable to them to contact me within 24 hours. Since they did not contact me the agreement was for me to do as I stated above.

     I will be sending the December bill to Charlotte as I have always done, only this time they will receive no check in the amount of some 43 dollars and change, but a statement of the bill amount deducted from the credit. Also if the FET still appears that will be added to the credit to be used to offset the bill.

      Originally Amy Shoenfield said Sprint would credit the FET every month when I sent in the amount on the bill. I suggested that it simply be eliminated from my bill to save money of me paying and then mailing to them the amount so they could issue a credit. However, that changed when they agreed to do it this way.

     I do have all the correspondence if you would like it sent to you or you can call Len Lauer, at 913-624-3000 or fax to him at 913-523-8312

     I also do not want phone service cut off for this matter because Sprint Billing of Charlotte will perceive this as a non payment, even though I got a flyer in the last bill stating the phone service could not be cut off under the North Carolina Public Utilities Commission directives. In other words I don't want to have to call PUC and tell them that Sprint is going to cut off service because of the way I am applying the credit when the Charlotte office receives no money for the next 4 plus months and then have PUC call Sprint to say you can't shut off the service.

     I will be sending you what I send Charlotte come the first of December as I have to wait for my disability check to come in on the third of December to pay the bill.

Sincerely,

Albert Harry: coombs