{"id":35504,"date":"2017-07-27T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/without-taxes-self-reliance-impossible-rpf\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:49:56","slug":"without-taxes-self-reliance-impossible-rpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/without-taxes-self-reliance-impossible-rpf\/","title":{"rendered":"Without taxes self-reliance impossible &#8211; RPF-Inkontanyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The nation\u2019s tax policy has been a burning issue during the presidential campaigns, an aspect that as well featured prominently during the live televised presidential debate this week. }  <\/p>\n<p>The first live debate was organized by the National Electoral Commission and the State broadcaster Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA), on Tuesday ahead of the August 4th elections.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate, the spokesperson for Rwanda Patriotic Front RPF-Inkotanyi, Wellars Gasamagera disagreed with the promises made by independent candidate Phillipe Mpayimana and Democratic Party Secretary General Jean Claude Ntezimana.<\/p>\n<p>Ntezimana said his party will abolish tax for the youth for at least two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will speed up economic growth through revising taxes, creating opportunities for the youth, at least by giving them two years-tax holidays.  Traders are not happy with the current taxes, which leads to tax evasion and avoidance,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The independent candidate Phillipe Mpayimana proposed that he plans to abolish tax on land when he ascends to the Presidential seat. <\/p>\n<p>In response to the land tax platform, Green Party representative Ntezimana asserted that it seems there is no Rwandan who owns land.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Gasamagera replied that Rwanda\u2019s economy is based on assisting the private sector, in the quest of creating employment opportunities, which employment opportunities will, in turn, enable Rwanda to attain a good economic status. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo achievement can be registered without self-sufficiency; we are talking about self-reliance, all those can\u2019t be realized without taxes. I think that would tantamount to deceiving ourselves  if we say that we want to be self-reliant. We want to fund the national  budget at 100%. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21311 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-69.jpg\" alt=\"The Secretary General of RPF-Inkotanyi, Gasamagera Wellars\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21312 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-63.jpg\" alt=\"The Secretary General of Green Party, Jean Claude Ntezimana\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21310 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-71.jpg\" alt=\"Independent candidate, Philippe Mpayimana\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21309 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-78.jpg\" alt=\"Broadcast journalist, Cleophas Barore was leading the session\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The nation\u2019s tax policy has been a burning issue during the presidential campaigns, an aspect that as well featured prominently during the live televised presidential debate this week. } The first live debate was organized by the National Electoral Commission and the State broadcaster Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA), on Tuesday ahead of the August 4th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[133],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-main-featured-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}