Djezzy, Orascom’s disputed Algerian unit, may be allowed to pay just 20 percent of its US$230 million tax bill prior to an imminent payment deadline. “As an Algerian firm, it has the right to introduce a claim to pay 20 percent of the total amount, and postpone the payment of the 80 percent,” Mustafa Zikara, director at Algeria’s tax department, told Reuters. Orascom has been locked in long-running dispute with Algeria, which last week appointed a law firm to advise it on the nationalisation of Djezzy.