Parliamentary Communications: The judiciary obligated mobile companies to pay their debts and taxes within a month
Parliamentary Communications: The judiciary obligated mobile companies to pay their debts and taxes within a month
11/19/2020 12:26:31
(Baghdad: Al Furat News) A member of the Communications and Media Committee in the House of Representatives, Aswan Al-Kaldani, revealed, today, Thursday, that the judiciary has given mobile phone companies to pay their debts to the government.
Al-Kaldani said in a press interview that “after the court’s decision to refuse renewal of the mobile phone companies operating in Iraq (Zain, Asiacell, Korek) after the lawsuit filed by MP Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani against it, there is a decision that it is necessary to recover all the amounts owed by these companies, and to settle the subject of the previous amounts. The remaining and unresolved cases in the courts will be submitted to the government, provided that they are paid within 30 days. ”
He added, “Those companies evaded paying the debts and taxes owed over the past years, which amounted to about one billion dollars.”
Al-Kaldani indicated that “a lot of political pressure exerted by these companies on officials in the telecommunications sector in Iraq to delay paying the debts and taxes that were imposed on them in the past years,” stressing that “the government must be serious and resolute in the issue of obtaining these amounts from companies, especially since The country is suffering from a suffocating financial crisis due to low oil prices and the Corona outbreak. ”
He explained that “Iraq is the first country in the world in which private companies owe money and refuse to pay them, while companies in the other countries are the ones who lend to governments with very long repayment periods extending over 10-15 years.”
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