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Telecommunication, Media and Technology

Lawhill & Co. Advocates offers the right mix of industry knowledge and experience to your telecommunications, media and technology transactions. We invest enormous resources and time to understand our clients’ strategic objectives, offering relevant and practical advice. Transactions in telecommunications, media and technology are primarily cross-border, this means that, businesses are prone to tax rules of more than one jurisdiction. Our lawyers are up to the task, having gained huge experience from advising clients on a range of issues in the telecommunication sector.

Lawhill & Co. Advocates’ Partners specifically had advised telecommunication companies on a number of their tax issues and is handling tax disputes in respect of the three major telecommunication companies in Tanzania. The tax issues involves the taxability of fees on roaming services, interconnection services, international telecommunication services, and call transmission and termination services. We are among the few firms in Tanzania to establish a dedicated telecoms teams, and have always seen telecoms as part of a broader communications and technology sector. We bring expertise from the wider sector to bear wherever relevant.