Bangladesh budget retains some barriers to connectivity
http://lirneasia.net/2009/07/bangladesh-budget-retains-some-barriers-to-connectivity/ (lirneasia.net)
published: 2009-07-02 13:02:50 ( 8 months ago )fetched: 2009-07-02 14:15:19 ( 8 months ago )
Talk in the Bangladesh telecom sector has been focused on taxes these days because the government had proposed a 25% tax on handsets and the retention of the controversial TK 800 tax on SIMs. These are counterproductive taxes both in terms of improving government revenues and connecting people electronically; their combined effect is to make it a lot more expensive to get connected. It’s only people who are connected who generate usage-based taxes, they are counter-productive for the government and they absolutely go against plans for a Digital Bangladesh. At the end of all the efforts to change the government’s
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