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Articles tagged with: Tax and GSMa
Kenyan Government Cuts Taxes on Mobile Phone Handsets
..P will grow. It was a win-win for everyone," she added. However, a 10% tax on airtime vouchers remains in place, so the cost of calls and text messages themselves remain the same price. The GSM Association has long called for a lowering of taxe more
Argentina Planning Higher Taxes on Mobile Phone Imports
The GSM Association (GSMA) says that it is concerned about plans to raise taxes on mobile phones in Argentina. The bill seeks to extend internal taxes on mobile handsets to a 17% nominal rate for imports and/or sales which are not produced in the Tierra del Fuego special economic zone. more
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Africa's Mobile Industry to Pay $71 Billion in Tax By 2012
The mobile industry will generate $71 billion in tax revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2012, but that figure would be higher still if governments removed taxes that treat mobile phones and services as luxury goods, according to research commissioned by the GSMA. The research by Frontier Economics found that uptake of mobile services in the region is being held back by mobile-specific taxes on handsets, airtime and telecom equipment, which increase costs for consumers and deter investment by mobile operators. more
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A $50 Billion Investment to Blanket Africa With Mobile Phones
..le communications, such as high consumer taxes. Mobile specific taxes are levied in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; if these were lowered or removed, government tax receipts would actually increase as more people will connect and use more
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