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February 22, 2019
The Association of Licensed TelecommunicationsOperators of Nigeria
has urged the Federal Government to look into theTax and Levy
Amended Order 2015.
The Executive Secretary of ALTON, Gbolahan Awonuga,said on that
the “Tax and Levy Amended Order 2015’’ was signed bya former
Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Awonuga said that the order had created a lot ofconfusion in the taxes
and levies regime, making the environment harsh forbusiness and not
minding government’s Ease of Doing Businessprogramme.
He said that in Nigeria today, most of theregulatory bodies had left the
regulatory functions and now turned to revenuegenerating bodies and
bringing about multiple taxation and regulation.
According to him, telecommunications operations arenot isolated to the
ecosystem, as the cost of running business inNigeria, especially
telecommunications is triple the cost of runningsame in Ghana and
neighbouring countries.