The Mobile Phone and Accessories Dealers Association (MPADA), umbrella-body of mobile phones and accessories dealers in the country, is asking government to reconsider plans to increase tax on phone accessories from the current 3 percent to 17.5 percent.
The association contends the newly introduced tariff, as captured in the 2016 budget, will have negative effects on business activities.
“The 2016 budget has introduced another tariff that seeks to increase the current tax on phone accessories from 3% to 17.5%.
“Let me daresay that the effect of this tax imposition will have a serious negative effect on local business and we would want government to consider this decision,”Chairman of the association, Alfred Korle-Mantey, told journalists.
The association also wants government to enact the legislative instrument that will see the scrapping of the 20 percent import duty on the import of mobile phones and accessories as was promised in the 2015 budget statement.
