Credit for Federal Telephone Excise Tax Paid

Now I know why I kept all my old telephone bills :) The standard credit for a single filer for the Federal Telephone Excise Tax Refund is $30.00. I just computed my credit using my old bills and Excel (where I set up a spreadsheet to replicate Form 8913 and do all the summations and multiplications needed). My credit comes to $111.13. $81 is not bad for half an hour's work :) Most of the credit is due to tax I paid on bundled service. So if you have those old bills give them a quick check to see if you might exceed the standard credit and if it's looking good, do the computations.