{"id":36059,"date":"2017-10-14T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ngirente-urges-public-on-tax-paying\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:19:15","slug":"ngirente-urges-public-on-tax-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ngirente-urges-public-on-tax-paying\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngirente urges public on tax paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ngirente was speaking Friday while presiding over the \u20182017 Taxpayers Appreciation Day\u2019 in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>The day was celebrated under the theme \u2018My Tax, My Development, My Dignity\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Statistics show that in 2016\/207 fiscal year, taxes contributed 56.4% whereas in 2017\/2018 will contribute to 66% to financing the national budget . According to Ngirente, this is a proof of how taxes contribute to developmental activities like constructing infrastructure, classrooms, hospitals and electricity among others.<\/p>\n<p>He challenged people who are reluctant to pay taxes, to change their mindsets towards understanding tax payment as a contribution in building the nation. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI would like to remind people who evade taxes and those who delay to pay them to change their mindsets and understand that tax payment is everyone\u2019s responsibility. It benefits both taxpayers and the country in general. <\/p>\n<p>We should know that no country could develop without the contribution of its population\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He said that in seven years, the government will achieve the target of being self-reliant through increasing tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Ngirente said that the government target to increase investment by promoting Made in Rwanda and increasing exportation and their added value.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner General of Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), Richard Tusabe hailed the role of government in mobilizing more taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>He stated some challenges like tax evasion and called upon the government\u2019s contribution in tackling the problem <\/p>\n<p>According to RRA, in 2016\/2017 fiscal year, they collected a total of Rwf1,086.5 billion whereas they target Rwf1,215 billion in 2017\/2018 <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22122 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirente.group_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22123 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirente-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Dr. Eduard Ngirente has hailed best taxpayers and urged tax evaders to change their mindsets, saying that the country could not develop without the contribution of its population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-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\/36059","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=36059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36059"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36059"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}