Accordingly, operators can still offer the “3 days free call” to the public while the Government gains additional revenue to support the National Budget. Information gathered is that Dr. Augustine Jarrett, Economic Advisor to the President, appealed to the Speaker to hold on to the amendment of the tax law to give him time to brief the President accordingly. It is more than two weeks since the request was made by Dr. Jarrett to the Speaker but nothing has been heard from either the President’s office or from the House of Representatives on the way forward with amending the tax law. Reliable sources from both the House of Representatives and the President’s office are quoted as saying that intense lobbying is going on by LonestarCell and LRA Commissioner General Madam Elfrieda Tamba, with both the lower House and the President’s office not to amend the law but to keep the US$1 tax on all voice calls. Those lawmakers have therefore vowed to vehemently oppose and reject any attempt by some of their colleagues not to amend the tax law.

Source: Front Page Africa February 20, 2017 02:09 UTC