Mozambique’s Tax Authority looking for more than 56 billion meticais in 2nd quarter

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Mozambique’s Tax Authority looking for more than 56 billion meticais in 2nd quarter

11:45 CAT | 22 May 2018

Notícias

The Mozambican Tax Authority (TA) expects to collect 56.5 billion meticais in revenue during the second quarter of the current year, of which about 39 billion will be from domestic taxes and 16 billion from foreign trade.

The information was recently released in the district of Moamba, Maputo province, at a national TA meeting aimed at planning second quarter activities and evaluating the performance of the provincial delegations.

The AT collected 34 billion meticais in the first three months of this year, 109 percent of its 31 billion meticais target, and the numbers already achieved would seem a positive indicator for the achievement of the 232 billion meticais annual target the institution has set itself.

At the event, AT president Amélia Nakhare said that to carry out the government’s agenda, the institution must continue to fully fulfil its revenue collection role.

Nakhare said that while revenue collection was the AT’s responsibility, success did not depend exclusively on employee performance alone, but on a combination between leaders and the base.

“That is why, as a way to focus employees’ sensibilities in their day-to-day activities, we hold periodic meetings like this, recognising that these employees are the main actors for the fulfilment of the objectives that guide us as AT, and as guarantor of the full functioning of the state,” she said.

Nakhare said a battle against corruption was pressing if goals were to be met. Changing perceptions about the institution in some segments of society was also a challenge.

The meeting gathered TA employees from across, from border posts, collection points and other services, also served to discuss the mechanisms to improve the procedures for collecting revenue, as well as submitting the terms of reference of the competition for careers promotion and progression currently under preparation.

Source: Notícias