{The Revenue Protection Unit (RPU) has arrested one James Mushabe, a trader in the Central Business District of Nyarugenge in connection with evading taxes and trying to bribe police officers following up the case.}<\/p>\n
Mushabe, who runs a cosmetics shop in Nyarugenge market was arrested on November 7 by officers of RPU, a Rwanda National Police (RNP) arm attached to Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) to fight among others, fraud, smuggling and corruption.<\/p>\n
While narrating circumstances that led to Mushabe\u2019s arrest, RNP Spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Theos Badege, said that, on the fateful day, Mushabe sold cosmetics worth Rwf56, 350 to a client but did not issue an Electronic Billing Machine (EBM) receipt as the norm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen RPU officers, who were carrying out inspection, they stopped the buyer and asked for an EBM receipt, which he didn\u2019t have but informed them that the seller [Mushabe] claimed that the machine had broken down which was later to be found untrue as a method he had used to evade taxes,\u201d ACP Badege said.<\/p>\n
According to the spokesperson, RPU made a statement report that was to be sent to RRA and Mushabe would be fined to a tune of Rwf85, 950, which is ten times the value of evaded taxes as the law stipulates.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs means to prevent penalties, he went ahead and attempted to bribe them with Rwf30, 000 so as to prevent them from making the report, a crime he will also face in courts of law,\u201d ACP Badege noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means that he will pay the fine for evading taxes, but he will also be prosecuted for attempted bribery, and this should send a message to all those with such intentions of either evading taxes or using bribes as an escape route,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n
He noted that taxes are valued equally regardless of the amount of money involved adding that \u201cit\u2019s by law and it must be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Article 641 of the Penal Code stipulates that any person who directly or indirectly offers a gift in order to get an illegal service or refrain from carrying out any usual duties shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of five to seven years and a fine of twice or to ten times the value of what they had offered in bribes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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