MTN: OTT players don’t pay tax in SA
26 January 2016
Cape Town - Over-the-top (OTT) technologies such as WhatsApp and Skype don’t pay taxes in South Africa, says mobile network MTN [JSE:MTN].
MTN’s corporate service executive, Graham de Vries, made this claim in a presentation at a Parliament meeting on Tuesday. The meeting discussed possible regulation for OTT services in South Africa.
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services set up the meeting after the CEOs of MTN South Africa and Vodacom last year said that OTT services don’t contribute financially to local networks.
After presentations from the likes of the executive director of Research ICT Africa Professor Alison Gillwald and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) at the meeting, MTN’s de Vries addressed MPs and stakeholders.