Tax base

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tax base

Saturday 04 September 2021 157

 

Thamer Al-Haims

 

Direct and indirect taxes, collected by the Ministry of Finance in return for an indirect service, usually, and it is a container that expands and narrows according to the circumstances of the public service, to become a resource to facilitate multiple things.

And, as was updated in the white paper, to face pitfalls and delays as long as it was and still dominates the general performance of the government, it is trying seriously to keep things under control to hold the reins. When the Ministry of Finance announces that the amount collected as taxes amounted to 1% of the national product, which is a very small percentage that it does not have. Read in any tax system.

As long as the unaccounted for is currently in dealing with the financial situation in general, this structural defect, despite the laws supporting tax collection, has made the external and internal debt a difficult number that obstructs development and around which annual budget discussions revolve.

All this and the international experiences that we have tried with international institutions, to get to the art of managing debt service first, the real economy is still marginal in performance and determined by the quality of corruption, there is no doubt that there is a close relationship between the spread and aggravation of corruption, and the external factors that incite and support it, as many From cases of corruption to achieve strategic goals for other countries.

The main activity around which this type revolves is the external transfer of import from the sale of the dollar, as no preventive tax is imposed on it, because the tax at the outlets was not specified or the organization of inputs and outputs, which is supposed to plan with tax trends to serve development.

The tax base for this activity represents the public finances, in terms of deficits and debt service that are worsening with the days. 

This vessel is the currency market, if we know that it sells an average of 160 million dollars per day, so the annual sales become thirty-eight billion and four hundred million dollars, and if the tax rate is 9%, the amount will be three billion and four hundred million dollars annually. Does the tax authority obtain this amount from the beneficiary private banks? ?. 

The second chapter, which has an external relationship, is mobile companies. The sums collected from 7 million families in one year were estimated at three trillion and six billion dinars. Did the Tax Authority meet those funds?

These two activities represent the orbit and harvest of the rentier economy, when we see this activity that created its own sector, in isolation from the rest of the activities (if not at its expense and curbing it), in addition to creating distortions in the executive departments, most notably the collection of income taxes from the wealthy of the new private sector, because The agricultural and industrial sectors do not pay taxes as they used to, not as evasion, but as a reality imposed after the hegemony of this parasitic sector. 

The tax base according to legal entitlement is sufficient to meet the debt and deficit, or at least pushes towards the advancement of the real sectors of our economy, if its administration succeeds in overcoming the mentioned obstacles.

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Taxes.. An electronic system that limits corruption and preserves revenue

Sunday 19 September 2021 159

 

 Baghdad: Hussein Thaghb

Taxes play an important role in the economies of most countries of the world, as they are collected from their taxpayers and projects and services for citizens are reflected. The General Authority for Taxes has started its first step to develop the reality of tax performance, by adopting collection systems and electronic dealing that shortens many of the episodes that confuse transactions and limit the various forms of corruption that may Accompanying the process of fulfilling the specialized amounts.

Director General of the General Authority for Taxes, Samer Abdel Hadi Al-Rubaie, said: “Reforming the tax reality and moving it to a new stage represents our main goal for the next stage, and it also represents the government’s goal that came within its expanded reform program.” Tax reform contributes to increasing revenues and reducing cases Tax evasion and corruption, in order to improve the country’s economy.”

 

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He added that the reality of tax performance witnessed an improvement in some of its tracks, and led to an increase in tax revenues during the month of August of 377 billion dinars, as I indicated a boom in the achievement of revenues resulting from a diligent follow-up of the reality of work.

He pointed out that "the tax hinge is supportive of managing the national economy, and the world's experiences can be benefited from in this important juncture, as taxes are a funder of important projects within the country and create a capital cycle with a positive impact, which necessitates us to benefit from these experiences within the country."

 

The commentator phenomenon 

And he indicated that "the electronic systems that we are going to adopt in the tax junction, a large percentage of them have been borrowed from advanced systems adopted in the region."

Al-Rubaie said, "The electronic system that we have started adopting shortens many steps that limit the phenomenon of commentators, which creates an uncivilized image of performing the tasks assigned to the departments, in order to contribute to maximizing financial revenues."

 

electronic systems

He stressed the participation of a number of qualified employees in specialized courses to master electronic systems and process management in the most complete manner and achieve the goals set by the Commission and aspire to them

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He added that the authority is in gradual development stages aimed at ending paperwork completely and relying on electronic systems, paralleling a phased expansion in opening branches, as the Al-Ashar branch will be opened in Basra Governorate, the Tarmiyah branch in Baghdad and other branches to be announced in the future.

In addition, economic affairs specialist Hisham Khaled affirmed that “everyone wants a clear tax system in performance, far from the jurisprudence of the competent employee, who may complicate tax reviews, and lead the taxpayer to turn towards the commentators, and the resulting negatives, which makes us hope that The electronic system, which will be widely adopted in tax departments, will promote this service and end the friction between the competent employee and the taxpayer.

He pointed out, "The importance of benefiting from international experiences in collecting taxes and working to transfer them to Iraq, because there are many taxpayers and a large volume of work that need flexibility in this joint, to complete the work with a high flow."