TRA Commissioner General Harry Kitilya
By The Citizen Reporter
Posted Tuesday, September 24 2013 at 21:34
Posted Tuesday, September 24 2013 at 21:34
In Summary
This did not go down well with mobile phone
firms and opposition politicians. The firms have yet to start submitting
the tax, which became effective on July 1.
Dar es Salaam. The 14-day
ultimatum issued by the Tanzania revenue Authority (TRA) to mobile phone
companies to remit the controversial Sim card tax elapses today.
The Finance Act of 2013 imposed a Sh1,000 monthly
excise duty on Sim cards, to be deducted by mobile phone companies from
customers and remit the same to TRA.
This did not go down well with mobile phone firms
and opposition politicians. The firms have yet to start submitting the
tax, which became effective on July 1.
In a letter dated September 12, TRA Commissioner
General Harry Kitilya urged mobile phone companies to remit the cash
that the firms were supposed to have deducted from airtime bought by
their customers. If they failed to do so, he warned, the money would be
collected “in line with the provisions of the law”.
Mr Kitilya also urged mobile phone firms to start
remitting excise duty on money transfers at the rate of 0.15 per cent of
the amount transferred for amounts more than Sh3,000.
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN
