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(Ugandan) I think it’s legal gymnastics. Firstly, this “tax” is officially excise duty on OTT services. Data & voice already attract (heavy) excise duty. So if
by jkulubya 8y ago
(Ugandan)
I think it’s legal gymnastics. Firstly, this “tax” is officially excise duty on OTT services. Data & voice already attract (heavy) excise duty. So if they tacked it onto your phone bill, it would walk and quack like a hike in excise duty on data and voice plans.
Second issue - what if I don’t use any OTT services? But the phone company wants to just add 202/- per day to my bill? (That’s the route a few ISPs have gone down. Waiting for them to be challenged)
There are a few other issues, but those are my main suspicions.