Mobile users to pay 1pc surcharge on talk time, other services

The National Board of Revenue has taken an initiative to impose surcharge at the rate of one per cent on mobile phone services including talk time to boost revenue collection from the sector, officials said.
They said that the proposed surcharge would be named ‘development surcharge’.
The revenue to be collected from the sector will be spent in poverty reduction in rural areas, according to an instruction of the finance minister AMA Muhith.
Officials of the revenue board said that mobile phone users will have to pay the surcharge. – See more at: http://newagebd.net/29048/mobile-users-to-pay-1pc-surcharge-on-talk-time-other-services/#sthash.rHq9JPmI.dpuf