Telephone, data users spared pressure of higher excise taxes

Various stakeholders opposed higher excise duty on telephone and data services.

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Telephone and internet data services will be spared from higher excise taxes if a new parliamentary report is adopted, hurting the Treasury’s plans to raise extra money from the telecommunication sector.

The National Assembly Finance and National Planning Committee has frozen exchequer plans to lift excise duty and telephone services from the current 15 to 20 percent following public submissions opposing the move.

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