Govt pledges to acknowledge duty
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The legislature is never going to budge on recuperating Tk 134 billion in 'review' duty from versatile communication administrators Grameenphone and Robi.
"We remain by our choice and we will do whatever standard of the land enables us to understand the levy," post and media transmission serve Mustafa Jabbar told the Financial Express on Sunday.
He said the nation's two biggest cellphone organizations were given the cutoff time to react to the showcause notification and they have answered to them. The administration is presently allowed to take choice subsequently.
On September 04 last, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) served the notification to Grameenphone, dominant part offer constrained by the Norwegian Telenor Group, and Robi of Malaysian Axiata, asking the couple to react in 30 days for what valid reason their licenses won't be dropped for avoiding the installment of unfulfilled obligations in income sharing, late expenses and assessments.
GP and Robi both answered to the notification on Sunday, however both named the notification "unwarranted" and "invalid."
"The unwarranted showcause see by BTRC to drop our permit has not been pulled back and henceforth we have given our reactions," GP said in an announcement.
"Review is a subjudice matter and any showcause is invalid," Shahed Alam, boss corporate and administrative official at Robi Axiata Ltd told the FE.
The organizations recorded two separate cases with a Dhaka court, looking for inconvenience of lasting directives on the telecom controller's examined cases.
The cases were held up on August 25 and 26 individually.
"In the event that the court says that the administrators won't have to pay any cash to the BTRC, we will agree to it," commission executive Jahurul Haque told the FE.
"Since no court said a wonder such as this, we will proceed as per media transmission act and different rules that everyone must follow," he further said.
He by and by discounted the plausibility of elective question goals (ADR) over the case.
A prominent gathering held a week ago with account serve AHM Mustafa Kamal in the seat talked about the plausibility of waiver of Tk 67.46 billion in late charges to end the fuss that took steps to mark the nation's picture among remote financial specialists.
The account pastor had before said endeavors would be made to settle the contest outside the court.
With around 12 percent showcase capitalization, GP is the biggest recorded organization on the Dhaka Stock Exchange and the line has negatively affected the capital market.
Examiners accused the ongoing financial exchange droop for the GP-controller spat.
Post and media transmission serve Mostofa Jabbar and BTRC director Jahurul Haque and National Board of Revenue administrator Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan went to the gathering.
In any case, the gathering yielded no leap forward, as indicated by a gathering source.
After a review of the two cell phone administrators, the BTRC in 2016 guaranteed levy from GP, the biggest versatile communication firm, and Robi, the second-biggest administrator.
Of the aggregate, the chief review guarantee from Robi was Tk 3.15 billion and from Grameenphone was Tk 63.85 billion.
The administrators challenge the first claims found in review led by the legislature.
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