The fate of a sweeping telecommunications-tax-reform proposal might hinge on the impact that it were to be seen as having on 700,000 satellite-television subscribers in the Commonwealth. House Bill 2880, introduced last week by Chesterfield Republican Del. Sam Nixon, would change the way telecom taxes are collected and distributed in the Old Dominion and would spread the tax burden from traditional communications-system users to a wide spectrum of communications consumers. It is there that the satellite-TV sector comes into the picture. DirecTV subscribers in Virginia have known about the changes coming on the horizon since before the start of the...