Internet Users in Africa Bemoan Social Media Tax

The tax on the so called Over The Top (OTT) media services in Uganda impacts communication and social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and others.

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Internet Users in Africa Bemoan Social Media Tax — A woman uses WhatsApp on her phone in Kampala, Uganda, on July 5, 2018. Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images

By Toluwani Eniola

11/3/2018Updated: 11/4/2018

KAMPALA, Uganda—When the Ugandan parliament approved taxes on the use of social media platforms in spring, Ian Ortega was one of the millions of Ugandans who spoke out against the policy.

But he didn’t envisage the scale of its impact on his string of online businesses which thrive on traffic from social media.

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