Mobile phone use to get costlier
Mobile phone use cost will increase in the next fiscal as Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposed to hike the duty on SIM card-related services to 5 percent.
Currently, there is a 3 percent supplementary duty on all kinds of mobile service use. In his proposed budget, Muhith set a 5 percent duty.
Mobile phone operators feared this will badly impact their earnings and network expansion plan. “No doubt after implementing this tax users will reduce their uses,” said a top official of a leading mobile phone...