Legal Opinion
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 27, 1985No. 84-203PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C & P) appeals from an order entered by the Public Service Commission in one of two separate ratemaking proceedings. At issue is the portion of the Commission’s order which allocates between C & P and its ratepayers the cost of a double tax payment made by C & P pursuant to an amendment to the District of Columbia franchise tax act. The Commission allowed the payment to be recovered in its entirety by C & P from its ratepayers over a three-year period through a surcharge on C & P’s rates, but it denied C & P any recovery of…
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