Tag: Communication Service Tax
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Mobile network consumers express mixed reaction to reduction of ‘talk tax’
The reduction in the Communication Service Tax (CST), which took effect on Tuesday, September 15 has received mixed reactions from mobile network consumers. The reduction of the tax, from nine to five percent, as promised by the government, was done to support Ghanaians during these times of COVID-19. Citi Business News, in an interaction with…
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Reduction of ‘talk tax’ from 9% to 5% takes effect from September 15
Mobile subscribers and data users will from Tuesday, September 15, 2020, enjoy longer durations of voice and data bundles but pay the same amount of money for recharges. This is because mobile network operators will be reducing the Communication Service Tax (CST), also known as “talk tax” charged on the use of communication services in…
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Institute of Fiscal Studies criticizes ‘Talk Tax’ reduction
The Institute of Fiscal Studies, IFS, has criticized government for its decision to reduce the Communications Service Tax, from 9 to five percent. As part of efforts to mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19 on consumers and businesses, government announced the reduction in the Mid-year budget to take effect from September this year. But analyzing…
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Gov’t announces reduction in ‘Talk Tax’ from 9% to 5%
As part of efforts to mitigate the economic impact of the novel Coronavirus pandemic on Ghanaians, government has announced a reduction in the Communication Service Tax, CST, also known as ‘Talk Tax’ from nine per cent to five per cent. This was announced by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, when he presented the 2020…
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Bright Simons writes: Government deserves some flak for rising data & call rates
This week, some telecom operators came under consumer fire for sudden, unannounced, hikes in their data tariffs, prompting parliamentary intervention. At least one of the telcos involved has blamed the incidents on system glitches. As a longtime consumer rights activist, naturally my sympathies are with ordinary mobile subscribers who have had to endure the loss of value…
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Consumers angry as cost of internet shoots up after NCA directive
Customers of mobile telecommunication companies are beginning to feel the pain of the increase in the cost of the internet packages after the implementation of a host of directives from the regulator, the National Communications Authority (NCA). The regulator last month had directed the telcos to stop charging consumers upfront the nine percent Communication Service…
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Telcos to publish new cost of data after ending upfront CST deduction
Telecommunication Companies are to publish a new cost of tariff, following the implementation of the Communications Service Tax. The 9% Communication Service Tax which was earlier charged upfront after an increase from 6 to 9 percent in the mid-year budget, is now being charged as consumers use their airtime or data. The Ghana Chamber of…
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful sued for ordering telcos to cease upfront CST deductions
The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has been sued for ordering the telecommunication companies to stop the upfront deductions of the 9% Communications Service Tax (CST). The Minister was sued together with the Attorney General and the Mobile Telecommunications Networks by a private citizen called Dzifa Gunu. In his writ, Dzifa Gunu argued that the Communications…
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Telcos fix November 26 to stop upfront CST deduction; customers to be compensated
Mobile network operators say they will from November 26 stop the upfront deduction of the 9 percent communication service tax. The decision follows a series of consultations with the regulator, the National Communications Authority (NCA) as well as tax authorities. According to a statement issued by the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, the telecommunications companies will…
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[Article] Harking-on: Latest Communication Service Tax
Whilst Kigali beams as the modern day poster child of African progressivism, discussions in Ghana, these two weeks, have been besieged by a goulash of commentaries on the Communication Service Tax (CST) and KelniGVG (Subah, Afriwave et al), causing midnight panic attacks—and further denting general goodwill—among various stakeholders stung by this wasp: government, telecommunication companies…