Tax System in Telecoms Industry is Anti- Broadband Growth- NCC

Tax System in Telecoms Industry is Anti- Broadband Growth- NCC

Tax System in Telecoms Industry is Anti- Broadband Growth- NCC

NIGERIAN Communications Commission (NCC)
has described multiple taxation against
telecoms operators as anti-broadband
development.
Speaking at the 21st Anniversary of the
Association of Telecommunications
Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) held last
night in Lagos, Prof. Umar Garba
Danbatta, acting Executive chairman of
the NCC represented by Mr. Tony Ojobo,
the director, Public Affairs, said that the
case of “pre-investment” taxation of the
operators as against tax-after-profit
must be discouraged, especially at the
State level.
According to him, multiple taxation is
one of the inhibitions against fast
deployment of broadband services in
Nigeria, especially incessant and
multiple taxes and their enforcement by
government officials.