{"id":7779,"date":"2022-07-21T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2022-07-20T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:50:47","slug":"revenue-collection-policy-not-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/revenue-collection-policy-not-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenue collection policy not clear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Adia Jildo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Juba City Deputy Mayor for Physical Infrastructure, Thiik Thiik Mayardit has blamed unclear revenue collection policy for the numerous and unnecessary taxations harming traders and the common man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiik Thiik made the statement during the launch of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) office in Konyo-Konyo which will enable the safe and timely payment and collection of taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what belongs to us and to the revenue authority. We are crumbling on one person\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou even get the fire brigade inside here, police, national security taking taxes. You can get more than 19 people collecting taxes from one trader\u201d he disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiik Thiik said the act is exploiting the traders and in turn making the common man who is the final consumer to bear the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only in South Sudan where anyone can go to the market to collect taxes\u201d Thiik noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of money in South Sudan and I believe that if we are allowed to challenge ourselves, we can challenge ourselves but the money is going to individual pockets\u201d he pointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Deputy Mayor for Physical Infrastructure blamed the act of corruption on the delay or failure in payment of arrears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Minister of Finance and Planning Agak Achuil Lual however pointed out malpractices citing different institutional acts which have brought mess hence burdening businesses and consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people collecting taxes in the market. The more we collect taxes, the more the traders will add the prices up. It all adds to the goods and we pay it indirectly,\u201d he cited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there is need for the harmonization of taxes to reduce inflation in the market and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe issue of taxes is a very big problem,\u201d Minister Agak emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance Minister called for creation of awareness to the public to orient people on the tax policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adia Jildo The Juba City Deputy Mayor for Physical Infrastructure, Thiik Thiik Mayardit has blamed unclear revenue collection policy for the numerous and unnecessary taxations harming traders and the common man. Thiik Thiik made the statement during the launch of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) office in Konyo-Konyo which<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/revenue-collection-policy-not-clear\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}