Reports of the introduction of a tax on telephone calls in Nigeria have dominated public discuss lately. The reports have it that the tax was contained in the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2021.
Before it was signed and the tax provision expunged, the NHIA, which replaced the National Health Insurance Scheme, had provided in Section 26 (1c) for a “telecommunications tax, not less than one kobo per second of GSM calls” being one of the sources of funding for a Vulnerable Group Fund.
Source: DailyTrust
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