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Approving the mechanism of work of the Tax and Fees Authority during a meeting chaired by Engineer Khamis

2020-01-07T16:17:12.141Z


Damascus-Sanaa A meeting in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers approved a mechanism for the work of the General Authority for Taxes and Fees for the next stage


Damascus-Sana

A meeting in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers approved the mechanism of work of the General Authority for Taxes and Fees for the next stage in the field of combating tax evasion and correcting the tax system in a way that achieves tax fairness with an emphasis on not imposing any tax increase or new taxes.

It was decided during the meeting headed by Eng. Imad Khamis, Prime Minister, to form a team of ministries of economy, foreign trade, local administration, environment, internal trade and consumer protection whose mission is to link the authority’s work with the relevant ministries and raise the efficiency of the services provided by the authority to citizens through a single window and circulate payment services to citizen service centers and use tools Electronic payment and electronic archiving program.

The Ministry of Local Administration was asked to instruct the administrative units to conduct a comprehensive survey of the productive facilities and workshops located in the governorates, identify the licensed and unlicensed, and communicate with the owners of closed shops in areas liberated from terrorism to settle their tax status in a way that encourages them to return to their commercial activities.

It was agreed to secure and provide the infrastructure, logistical equipment and mechanisms necessary to achieve the goals of the authority, provided that its need is determined from the human cadres in each governorate to be assured of them from other public authorities, and the authority was asked to develop and standardize tax legislation in line with the economic needs of the reconstruction phase and attract investments .

Emphasis was placed on the need to build a central database in cooperation with the ministries of Internal Trade, Consumer Protection, Local Administration, Environment, Economy, Foreign Trade, Social Affairs, Labor and Chambers of Commerce, Agriculture, Industry, Tourism and Craftsmen Federations with the aim of obtaining accurate data on the work of associates for each union.

During the meeting, a project was prepared to rearrange the authority’s board of directors and expand the participation of various entities to be active in drawing up the tax policy. It was also agreed to prepare a draft for the transition from paper stamps to electronic labels in government transactions.

With regard to the inspection mission formed to deal with the tax accumulation file, it was stressed the need to work with a real executive mechanism that achieves clear results by setting priorities and reaching to address this file during the current year.

Emphasis was placed on spreading tax awareness through workshops to introduce public tax policy and the negative effects of tax evasion on the local economy and the need to combat it.

Deputy Minister of Finance Dr. Riyad Abdel-Raouf between that the meeting focused on accomplishing tax accumulation work, simplifying procedures for taxpayers, increasing the effectiveness of tax collection and tax collection and showing the effective role of taxes in financing government work procedures, noting to provide the authority with instructions to make the tax policy consistent with the government’s development work policy and employ it In encouraging investments during the next stage.

Director General of the General Authority for Taxes and Fees Munther and Nous stressed that there will be no new taxes and will work to develop the work and tools of the authority and activate its role in achieving tax justice and develop a plan to raise the level of tax awareness and complete tax accumulation during the current year, pointing out that the meeting decided to provide a system New incentives and providing the authority with the necessary human cadres.

Source: sena

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