Telecom companies to submit self-assessment documents on AGR maths

The Centre on Monday asked telecom companies to submit documents supporting their self-assessment claims of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. The department of telecommunications (DoT) issued letters to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Tata Teleservices for submitting supporting documents for their statutory dues calculation. 

However, no deadline has been given to companies to submit the supporting documents.

Once substantiating documents are filed by the companies, the telecom department will initiate random ‘test checks’ on the AGR calculation in a time-bound manner. 

The ‘test checks’ will be done for any one year (of telcos’ dues) to examine the deviation between telecom