Grameenphone yesterday submitted Tk239.73 crore in VAT to the tax regulator yesterday in response to a warning letter as part of its payment for 2G renewal and spectrum fees, a spokesman for the mobile operator said.

In the letter, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) said it would freeze the bank accounts of GP if the operator did not pay the dues in time.

Grameenphone paid the value-added tax after deducting the amount at source from the first phase of licence renewal and spectrum assignment fees paid to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Tahmeed Azizul Huq, head of corporate communications of GP, told The Daily Star.

On the warning letter, Jahangir Alam, a commissioner of NBR, said: “We have acted according to a court order.”