Customers Kick As POS Operators Raise Charges

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Operators of Point-of-Sale terminals raised their charges on Monday in line with the implementation of the Electronic Money Transfer Levy of N50 by the Federal Inland Revenue Services charged on any electronic inflow of N10,000 and above.

Several fintech platforms on Sunday notified their customers that they would start the collection of N50 as an Electronic Money Transfer Levy in compliance with the Federal Government Stamp Duty Act, which would be remitted to Federal Inland Revenue Services.

Seige (@OjoPraise), adding his voice said, “My issue with the POS money vendors is they will add more charges when you want to transact anything because of this levy. Imagine you want to withdraw N1,000 and they will say 200 per N1,000. After all, nobody is going to protest or do anything. We are broken!”

Adding a crying emoji to his comments, @chxbueze said, “Government go collect charges, POS too go collect.”

Muritala Mujeed said, “Ohhhh This is the reason why POS users started N100 extra charges on transactions above N10,000. I wanted to pay for fuel this morning and I was shocked by the guy’s ‘shalaye’ (explanation). Toor, it is well o.”

Collins said, “I deposited N12,000 from POS to my account, they still charged me N50 and I paid POS charges. Please what’s going on?”

The initial implementation of the levy in September elicited reactions from Nigerians especially on social media who accused the government of continuously imposing taxes on citizens without notable progress or accountability for how the monies are spent. It was suspended and implementation was moved to December 1st. 




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