Posts and Telecommunications Division (PTD) has requested the National Board of Revenue to avoid double taxation and VAT on the verified SIM cards.
The PTD said, no tax would be imposed further on the mobile connections which have already been activated.
Talking to BSS yesterday, state minister for posts and telecommunication Tarana Halim about the activated cellular phone connection said “If we consider the SIM cards as commodity, tax has already been paid against those. So, NBR could impose transfer fee, but not any tax if those SIMs are activated earlier.”
The state minister passed the remark against the backdrop of NBR’s claim for tax and VAT on mobile connection during the ongoing biometric SIM registration launched by the PDT to ensure the actual ownership of mobile connection using the human body-based indentifying system to curb telephony crimes.
All the cell phone users of Bangladesh have to verify their connection using the biometric system that began on December 16.
