Mwanza TRA Regional Manager Ernest
Dundee gave the assessment of the revenue collection at the weekend
here. He said TRA recognises the existence of the businesspeople who
have not been formalised and continues to register them to raise
government revenue.
He said with government’s plan to
distribute free electronic fiscal devices (EFD’s), TRA expects that the
use of the machines would increase efficiency in the collection of
government taxes. “One of the challenges contributing to limited revenue
collection is the sale of fish fillets abroad has drastically
decreased,” Dundee said. “For example, a decrease in the importation of
goods has contributed to decline of revenue collection,” he said.
TRA is currently enforcing the use of
EFDs in Mwanza region out of which 1,020 businesspeople who registered
for the Value Added Tax (VAT), 1,011 are using the machines, an
equivalent of 99 per cent.
“Traders are supposed to have those
machine for providing receipts and use them in accordance with the law,”
Dundee said, adding: “We’re continuing with public awareness programmes
on the use of EFDs.”
According the TRA Regional Manager, 88
businesspeople were fined a total 113.1m/- for not using the machines in
their business transactions.
Between July last year and June this
year TRA has conducted 42 seminars, 20 radio show and spots, 40 public
announcements and different exhibitions to secondary and primary schools
students.
The authority’s future strategies are to work with other professionals to identify various sources of government revenue.
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