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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 19 Jun 2019 : 13:31:33
"Alieu Bittay, Project Manager and Director of Risk Enterprise Management and IT at GRA, said the project is focusing on two areas, which is time release, studying and waste management.
He thus advised participants to concentrate on the lectures and make the best use of the materials that will be shared during the five-day forum."
"GRA’s overall reforms and modernisation efforts."
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All talk about TAX & GRA must send shock waves through the AVERAGE GAMBIAN who has great difficulty in managing survival under the extended family system where it is not uncommon for only a very few people in employment are obliged to care for 20 UNEMPLOYED people in a compound.The fact that IMPORT duties on MOST imports will inevitably rise.The administration is very serious about this topic judging on the length of 5 days for the forum.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
The Commissioner General of The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) has maintained that the Authority will not compromise on non-tax compliance and thus challenged his staff to enforce the tax laws to the latter.
Mr. Yankuba Darboe was speaking recently at the start of a five-day seminar designed for authority’s top management on Risk Management Strategy /framework held at a hotel in Kololi.
The seminar was funded by GIZ, Germany and supported by World Customs Organisation. The five-day seminar is a component of the WCO-GIZ project, which is being implemented as part of GRA’s overall reforms and modernisation efforts.
Commissioner Darboe challenged his staff not to leave any stone unturned in the execution of their duties, reminding participants that The Gambia is a tax-based economy and government relied heavily on tax collected by the authority for national development.
He equally advised his staff to collect the necessary tax legally, as the GRA act has empowered them to collect all the taxes that is due for government in a fair and transparent manner.
Darboe disclosed that the seminar also seeks to develop Customs Risk Management Strategy and Register, further indicating that the move is another milestone in GRA’s determination to apply modern intelligence-based risk management principles in all its operations.
The introduction of intelligence- based risk management techniques in customs operations, he believes, is an acknowledgement dynamic in international trade environment.
‘’Thus, developing customs Risk Management Strategy will undoubtedly make it easier for the Authority to take appropriate actions to allocate its limited resources more effectively and efficiently by balancing its intervention and its facilitation of trade as prescribed in World Trade Organisation Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO/TFA) ‘’.
Commissioner Darboe expressed hope that the seminar would provide guidance as to what actions the Authority can take in the application of intelligence-based risk management principles, in order to achieve its strategic objectives.
Also speaking, Doorgaprasad Rajcoomar of World Customs Risk Management Expert Compliance and Facilitation Director described the forum as a demonstration of a high level commitment, where top management of GRA are engaged.
He thanked GRA management for their hospitality.
‘’This five days forum is a follow up to the first mission with GRA in January, in terms of diagnose that we did together in gathering information to make a report on what the situation and where GRA was going regarding some reforms that we agree on, in terms of customs risk management strategy’’.
Alieu Bittay, Project Manager and Director of Risk Enterprise Management and IT at GRA, said the project is focusing on two areas, which is time release, studying and waste management.
He thus advised participants to concentrate on the lectures and make the best use of the materials that will be shared during the five-day forum.
Author: Abdoulie Nyockeh
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/gra-staff-urged-to-enforce-gra-laws-legally-1 |
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| toubab1020 |
Posted - 22 Jun 2019 : 16:10:18
Lamin Keita is really on the ball with his posting Thanks for showing how money from Gambia SHOULD be spent and not "wasted" when there is already a mechanism in existance to do the job.
Dear Reader you MAY be interested to have a look at EXACTLY who this young man is and what he is studying,go to the link below.
https://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/graduate-students/lamin-keita.html
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By Omar Bah June 21, 2019
Lamin Keita, a Gambian PhD student at the Northwestern University in the US, has condemned the CRC’s diaspora travel expenses, describing it as a mere spendthrift meant to exploit the country’s resources.
The Constitutional Review Commission is currently on an international tour targeting Europe and America.
“The CRC diaspora travel expenses portray a sense that the Barrow government has not learned or has ignored the past misguided policies and economic misappropriation of the Jammeh regime,” Keita said in a write-up shared with The Standard.
He said it would have made sense to delegate the role of the CRC to the Gambian embassies in the diaspora.
“These embassies can convene meetings among Gambians and record or write what they want in the new constitution. They can also distribute the CRC’s questionnaire among Diasporas-door to door and neighbor to neighbor and major cities to save money,” he added.
Keita said approaching Gambian embassies would have also established a robust and a more meaningful engagement than the partial visit of CRC “which would not even cover every state”.
“We continuously bury innocent and young Gambian women from maternal wards, ostensibly because of lack of good hospitals, doctors and equipment.
Why can’t we save that ‘thousands if not millions of Dalasis’ spent on CRC for diasporas engagement and save life? Besides the alleged 13 million Dalasis is already spent on CRC’s domestic activities, the diaspora travel and other expenses are expected to be even higher,” he said.
He went on: “As a result, I would not spearhead such a wasteful and illegitimate venture even if I was chosen to head CRC, neither does any genuine Gambian should do so.
Simply because my conscience, moral, and religious being as well as the love for my country should dictate to me that I am exploiting my fellow citizens. This is wrong, and I cannot legitimize what is wrong.
Similarly, if we condemned the Jammeh regime for reckless spending, why shouldn’t we be bold enough to critique CRC’s shameful economic expedition under the realm of democratic environment?”
Keita said although the CRC is engaged in an invaluable service to the nation “this does not also mean that they should rob us in a broad day light while our law makers are sitting on the fence or staying aloof for not taking the responsibility to address the issue”.
“Conceptually, the CRC’s method to engage the diaspora would serve more as an instrument to enrich oneself at the expense of ordinary tax payer’s money than contributing to nation building.
I hope our law makers will continue to discuss and check such wasteful spending and also continue to engage other policymakers about the moral and economic hazards of some of their actions,” Keita added.
He said the National Assembly is failing to take up important responsibilities in allowing the CRC to pick pocket Gambians in broad daylight.
Also writing to The Standard on the issue, Yankuba Jambang, the editor Senegambia newspaper said: “It is my understanding that CRC went to Saudi Arabia with a ten-man delegation…With an average round trip airfare of $1700 per person that equals US$17,000, which amounts to D816, 000 excluding hotels and feeding and per diems. That is if they fly with economy tickets, which I doubt”.
“They’re scheduled to visit France, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the U.S. cities of New York, Seattle, Atlanta, Minneapolis, etc. Do you think these travels make sense? I call on Cherno Jallow and his team to stop these wasteful and fraudulent travels,” he said.
https://standard.gm/crc-is-exploiting-gambian-taxpayers-money/ |
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