{"id":37932,"date":"2018-07-30T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ndagijimana-urges-tax-collectors-on-domestic\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T08:13:49","slug":"ndagijimana-urges-tax-collectors-on-domestic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ndagijimana-urges-tax-collectors-on-domestic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ndagijimana urges tax collectors on domestic resources mobilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ndagijimana was speaking Monday in Kigali at the launch of African Tax Administration Forum\u2019s (ATAF) High Level Tax Policy Dialogue.<\/p>\n

The dialogue takes place under the theme \u2018Reinforcing Africa\u2019s Position to Benefit from The Global Tax Agenda\u2019<\/p>\n

Ndagijimana said that the theme of the meeting itself underscores the importance of close collaboration needed between tax policy and tax administration functions for effective revenue mobilization.<\/p>\n

He said that under the Agenda 2063, Africa committed to strengthen domestic resource mobilization, build continental capital markets and financial institutions, and reverse the illicit flows of capital from the continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever meeting of development actors that one attends, domestic resource mobilization has taken center stage of development discussions. Domestic revenue mobilization improved substantially in recent decades but tax-to-GDP ratios are still low in most of our countries and the continent is still heavily dependent on external financing, including foreign aid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Domestic resource mobilization, Ndagijimana said it helps building effective, transparent and harmonized tax and revenue collection systems.<\/p>\n

He said it also reduces aid dependency, enhance domestic savings and eliminate all forms of illicit flows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe global Sustainable Development Goals can only be realistically achieved through a coordinated response to resolve taxation issues with a view to increase domestic resource mobilization,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n

Ndagijimana said that Africa\u2019s tax to GDP ratio is below 18%, loses over US$50 billion in illicit financial flows. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not develop at the rate we wish, if we are not able to mobilize domestic resources in a more effective manner. The levels of resources lost through illicit financial flows are higher than the official aid received by Africa,\u201d he added<\/p>\n

He emphasized that Africa\u2019s design of tax systems must consider global dimension of tax policies. <\/p>\n

However, Ndagijimana said that experience shows that Africa needs to put in more effort to position itself and participate actively in the global tax agenda by being more proactive than reactive.<\/p>\n

ATAF executive secretary, Logan Wort said that tax collection needs adequate laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cTax collection has to go hand in hand with Tax laws and Policies that are adequate,\u201d Logan told the media.<\/p>\n

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The Minister of Finance and Economic Development (MINECOFIN), Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana has said that a coordinated response to resolve taxation issues and spurring domestic resources would help achieving global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37932","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\/37932","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37932"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37932"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}