The Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC) has said that multiple-taxation negates the rate of any
economic growth.
The Executive Commissioner of
Stakeholder Management of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Mr. Okechukwu
Itanyi, made this observation at a one-day stakeholders meeting to discuss
issues on multiple taxation, levelly severally against telecom operators in the
country.
In his address, Itanyi noted that
multiple taxes levied against the telecom operators in the industry are not
providing an enabling environment towards the nation’s economy growth.
Itanyi, who also is the chairman
of the Industry Working Group on Multiple Taxation, a group inaugurated on
January 19, 2012 whose members comprised of members from the regulatory agency,
and representatives from all telecom operators as well as stakeholders
including the media, maintained that telephone access in the country has not
only been a social status symbol but an essential communication and business
tool owned by both the poor and the rich alike.
According to him, despite the
significance of telecommunications to the nation’s economy, agencies of state
and local governments see the industry as a means of exploit.
He cited some examples of the
various taxes and levies by some state, local governments and their agents with
some cases where a particular telecom operator was levied for a particular item
by two agents of a particular given state government.
This approach, he said, is a
serious case which is working towards the extinction of telecom operators as
such taxes could get them out of business and in turn lead to congestion of
another telecom operator and increase in the rate of unemployment in the
country.
He described multiple taxations
as a wound on the part of the telecom operators as operators are being levied
hugely per base station by various agents of states and local governments and
their agents.
A member of the working group,
Mr. Tobe Akigbo representing the Association
of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) pointed out that in
some cases base stations were being shut by government agents which in turn led
to network pack-up in that particular part of the country.
Akigbo also said the telecom operators are faced with two forces from the regulatory agency and the telecom end-users where the operators would have to give reasons for the breakdown of service as a result of base station shut.
Remmy Nweke
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