Telecom firms demand tax cuts

BY BUSINESS REPORTER
CALLS are growing for the government to review taxes and duties levied on the telecoms industry to allow the sector to weather viability challenges it faces.

This comes after the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on ICTs, which toured Econet Wireless facilities in Harare this week, learnt of the issue.

Zimbabwe’s telecoms industry has been affected by high operational costs emanating from high input costs — most of which are foreign-currency-denominated.

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