Simplify import tax systems and educate public to ease compliance

The assumption is that if a country wants to become developed, it must take steps to improve and enhance its tax effort statistics and numbers.

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As the new year beckons, so, too, do tax changes, with the aim of better-capturing tax payments. Yet, in all the progress in building a more robust tax system, a huge blind spot remains for the majority of our accountants: and that’s the tax on foreign supplies.

In 2022, imports accounted for some $24.4bn, while the country’s entire GDP was $113.2bn - depressed, unfortunately, by a $14bn trade deficit, as our imports, once again, eclipsed our exports.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.