Keorapetse advises against tax rise
Friday, February 26, 2021
He suggested to the Minister of Finance and Economic Development to, instead, enhance the capacity of the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) to collect taxes effectively and efficiently and ultimately improve entire government ability to collect revenue.
Contributing to the budget debate this week, Keorapetse said the inability of government to collect revenue has been a problem for a long time. “All businesses of a size that BURS could determine, must have payment terminals in the form of Electronic Data Capture Machine/Card swipe machine linked to BURS to monitor transactions. Introduce high financial and or bank transactions taxes,” he said.
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