Chamber of commerce calls for unifying tax regime
The South Sudan Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture on Wednesday called on the government to unify the tax regime in order to reduce the burden of paying taxes to multiple agencies.
“Our problems are the on multiple taxes, the goods are in the market but when you move from place to place you are being taxed. We are calling on the national government to ease the situation of the taxes to improve the economy,” John Lual Akol, the first deputy chairperson for the chamber of commerce, industry and agriculture told journalists in Juba on Wednesday.
Akol was speaking after attending meeting with business associations.
He said high taxes levied on traders by multiple states agencies are partly to blame for the prevailing high inflation.
“Our economy is getting weak and we have to do something to ease the situation, when we just move around in the city we find a lot of tax collectors in the market including traffic police,” Akol said.
Mawa Moses Nigo, the secretary general for corporate relations for the South Sudan clearing agents association, praised the introduction of online clearance system for goods, saying it has eased delays in transport of goods to Juba.
“We used to have difficulties with the previous manual processing of work, but of recent we have received online process of facilitating goods through e-government, we are able to facilitate the declaration of goods in a short period of time,” Nigo said.
