GVG and Guinea Fight in US Court Over $22mn Fee for Terminating National RA Contract
Global Voice Group says its telco tax audits generate lots of money for African governments. The Republic of Guinea says otherwise.
Global Voice Group says its telco tax audits generate lots of money for African governments. The Republic of Guinea says otherwise.
The US government has allocated less than half of the USD5.3bn required to reimburse telcos for scrapping Huawei and ZTE gear.
An internal investigation by the network manufacturer suggests they avoided Iraqi Customs by using roads controlled by ISIS.
A vibrant and free press is vital to holding public bodies accountable for their failures. Tanzania’s press prefers to blame telcos for every failure by every government function.
Vodacom finds itself being squeezed for money by another African government, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
President Museveni said the 1 percent tax on mobile money withdrawals was a known ‘error’, but approved that law anyway. Now his government has cut the tax to 0.5 percent.
Zimbabwe has raised taxes on mobile money and electronic transactions. There are better ways to stimulate a developing economy.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta wants a 67 percent increase of taxes on mobile money transactions.
Telcos will face additional pricing headaches as the Ugandan government imposes a tax on social media users of 200 shillings (roughly 5 US cents) per day.
African governments should be reducing the burden on their people by using mobile money to efficiently collect tax, instead of increasing their burden by taxing mobile money transactions.