World Telecommunication Day has been celebrated
every year on 17 May since 1969, which marks the founding of ITU and the
signing of the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865.
Had been established by the Plenipotentiary Conference in Malaga -Torremolinos in 1973.
The purpose of World Telecommunication Day and
Information Society (WTISD) is to help raise awareness of the possibilities
that the use of the Internet and other information and communicationtechnologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, and ways to bridge the
digital divide.
Pakistan award 3G and 4G licenses in all four
cellular operators are on May 22, a new day telecommunications in Pakistan in
2014, an official of the Ministry of Pakistan and telecommunications confirmed.
It was previously planned to grant licenses on May 17, a day when the whole
world is celebrating World Telecommunication Day, but the ceremony has been
further delayed due to a tight schedule of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has
been invited to witness the landmark event in the history of telecommunications
in Pakistan.
Initially, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) had
declared May 10 as a day license for mobile services next generation (NGMS), but
a sudden quarrel between cellular operators and GoP on the issue of withholding
tax of 10 % stopped the process while until it was resolved yesterday at a
meeting between the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and CEOs of cellular operators
in which the latter agreed to pay 10% advance tax before the issuance of the
license.
The government and the cellular operators have
reached a consensus on the advance of withholding tax, as it was decided that
the cellular carriers will make 10 percent down payment of withholding tax due
to spectrum auctions 3G and 4G in the current month, said an official.
However, the FBR has been assigned to devise a
formula for the return of billions of rupees stuck up refund of
telecommunications operators in different phases.
In each auction is from the government, the
income tax ordinance allows the FBR to collect 10 percent of the WHT
withholding agent that sells any asset of the government.
One of those companies had also raised the
issue that the FBR had not yet given them stuck up repayments so you will be
able to submit billion rupees withholding tax in advance, he said.
The WHT is an adjustable tax when companies
submit their tax returns next year , then it could be customized, keeping in
view the overall tax obligations.
The FBR has so far collected Rs1, 745 billion
during the first ten months (July - April ) of the current financial year and
will have to collect Rs530 billion to achieve the revised tax collection target
of Rs2, 275 billion.