The Mozambican Tax Authority (TA) wants to boost the process of inspection and revenue collection in the central and northern areas of the country, as this is a region where there is a greater loss of resources in the smuggling of timber, gold and wildlife products
To this end, TA is in the process of recruiting officials who will ensure sufficient human resources to manage the borders in the regions where the country’s largest production centres are concentrated.
“We need to strengthen and secure our workforce with the capacity to ensure that natural resources benefit Mozambicans. If these resources are exported by legal means,” said TA President Amelia Muendane.
Muendane spoke during a working visit to the port of Maputo and the 1st and 2nd tax districts of the country’s capital, where she urged managers to have greater interaction with taxpayers in order to be sensitive to the challenges faced by taxpayers and persuade them to adhere to the processes and procedures of the Tax Authority.
“The taxpayer may from his office proceed with the submission of the declaration and make the payment of the tax. We will encourage all collection units to bear in mind the need to help the taxpayer to know what e-Declaration, e-Taxation, is and what value it will bring to him in the process of paying his taxes”, he argued.
According to Muendane, another challenge for TA is traffic management. This is one of the regimes that contributes most to tax invasion, annually generating a loss of seven to ten per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through the false transit of goods, one of the reasons why the entity is obliged to strengthen human resources.
According to the president of AT, a recent study indicates that the country loses 12.9 per cent of its GDP each year as a result of exports and smuggling of illegal products.
Meanwhile, in the period from 1 January to 30 December 2020, AT collected about 240.7 billion meticais, a figure above the target of 214.1 billion meticais.
