{"id":25982,"date":"2016-06-10T08:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/why-teachers-won-t-be-exempted-from-taxes\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T08:56:53","slug":"why-teachers-won-t-be-exempted-from-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/why-teachers-won-t-be-exempted-from-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why teachers won\u2019t be exempted from taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ambassador Gatete Claver has said that it is not easy to establish a system that will exempt teachers from paying taxes as is the case with soldiers and police personnel.}<\/p>\n<p>Minister Gatete said there have to be policy guidelines first before teachers are put into the loop of a tax-free salary system. He said allowing everyone such a privilege would decelerate the country\u2019s progress since Rwanda heavily depends on taxes for financing her national budget.<\/p>\n<p>He noted this on Wednesday June 8th, 2016 during the presentation of 2016\/2017 national budget responding to worries raised by parliamentarian, Uzabiriza Deborah who proposed establishing a tax-free salary for teachers to enhance their welfare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am asking whether teachers can be facilitated to get a tax-free salary as it occurred to some of the sectors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Gatete said that accessing cheap loans from Umwalimu Sacco is one of the practical availed support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that soldiers\u2019 salaries are different from others\u2019.That is why we established tax-free salary for them,\u201d he said adding; \u201cBut if we establish a tax-free salary for teachers, and next time exempt women and others, it would be hard to collect ample taxes for financing the national budget,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gatete said that teachers purchase in common markets like others since their salaries are not very meager.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016\/2017 national budget allocated Rwf 877.6 billion (45% of the budget) to supporting social welfare among which Umwalimu Sacco received an extra fund of Rwf 5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016\/2016 national budget is Rwf 1949.4 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12731 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bujet-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ambassador Gatete Claver\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Ambassador Gatete Claver has said that it is not easy to establish a system that will exempt teachers from paying taxes as is the case with soldiers and police personnel.} Minister Gatete said there have to be policy guidelines first before teachers are put into the loop of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25982"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25982"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}