{"id":186415,"date":"2022-05-09T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=186415"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T12:44:19","slug":"telcos-to-fg-remove-nuisance-taxes-as-5-duty-on-recharge-cards-takes-effect-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/telcos-to-fg-remove-nuisance-taxes-as-5-duty-on-recharge-cards-takes-effect-june-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos to FG: Remove &#8216;nuisance taxes&#8217; as 5% duty on recharge cards takes effect June 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators (ALTON), Gbenga Adebayo has called on the federal government to remove &#8220;nuisance taxes&#8221; placed on operators in the sector.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nuisance tax is a tax imposed as a\u00a0percentage\u00a0of the selling\u00a0price\u00a0of goods or services, payable by the customer and transmitted by the seller to the taxing authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was stated on Monday by Adebayo on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari last week<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0had approved the collection of five per cent excise duty on telephone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/29\/bandits-kidnap-kaduna-village-head-demand-petrol-recharge-cards-as-ransom\/\">recharge cards<\/a> and vouchers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The new 5 per cent duty would add to some of the taxes levied on telcos in the country, including tertiary education tax, companies income tax, value-added tax, right of way charges, annual operating levy, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking on the levies, Adebayo said operators faced about 36 levies and taxes, and an additional 5 per cent duty on recharge cards would take effect on June 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe behaviour of government is not helping things for anyone. As at today, we have about 36 levies and taxes against operators. An additional 5% excise tax has now been considered effective for the first of June. All of these affect the sector, and that\u2019s why we want the regulators to see that this is where we are,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cRegulators should look at the challenges that we are facing. Government should intervene where they can intervene and I must say not in the way of a bailout but to use the regulatory instruments to get what we want for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe sector should be declared as national critical infrastructure. When this is done, it becomes important like the oil and gas sector across the country. We\u2019re saying any negative impact on the telecommunication sector will affect the entire economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThere are levies and taxes defined in the statutory, we have no objections to those ones. The nuisance taxes are the ones that are problematic. If the government says they will charge effluent discharge tax on operators, what is that, we are not an oil service company. What is environmental sanitation tax on telecommunication companies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recall that the<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0telcos have asked for upward reviews in voice calls, short message services (SMS) and data costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The group said the recent excise duty of five per cent on telecom services will further increased the burden of multiple taxes and levies on the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\">Meanwhile, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had said it will not allow any tariff increase by the\u00a0telecommunication companies without adequate approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators (ALTON), Gbenga Adebayo has called on the federal government to remove &#8220;nuisance taxes&#8221; placed on operators in the sector. 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