Nigeria Is Latest Country to Make Revenue Assurance the Prelude to Taxes on Phone Users
The Nigerian government says a 5 percent tax will be imposed on all calls, SMS messages and data usage.
The Nigerian government says a 5 percent tax will be imposed on all calls, SMS messages and data usage.
The 217mn inhabitants of the world’s seventh-largest country are told that telcos need revenue assurance to be imposed from outside.
The national regulator will be able to monitor and block any device with an IMEI.
Raymond Wodi first sought to obtain the contract to check Nigeria’s telco taxes in 2015, the year before new taxes were imposed.
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