MTN handed Sh200b tax bill in Nigeria

Principal Secretary for ICT and innovation eng. Victor Kyalo cuts a ribon during the opening of MTN's State of -the artTier III data centre in Nairobi on Thursday 30th March 2017.MTN Business Kenya Managing Director, Kennedy Chinganya(left) and MTN Group Executive Head of Business Oliver Fortuin(right). [File, Standard]

MTN Group faces a $2 billion (Sh200 billion) demand for taxes in Nigeria, the latest in a series of skirmishes with authorities in the South African mobile phone company’s most lucrative but increasingly problematic market.