{"id":10702,"date":"2015-01-12T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T14:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=10702"},"modified":"2015-01-16T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T10:01:57","slug":"officials-talk-tax-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2015\/01\/officials-talk-tax-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials talk tax in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Inadequate tax legislation that lags behind business practice is one of the biggest challenges to revenue officials, the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators\u2019 35th Technical Conference heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The November conference, hosted by the Botswana Unified Revenue Service, took place in Gaborone with the theme Casting the Tax Net Further. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Opening the five-day event, Botswana\u2019s Secretary of Economic and Fiscal Policy<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Dr Taufila Nyamadzabo underscored the importance of reviewing the fiscal regime in the extractive sector, noting the increasing contribution of the sector to the economies of many developing countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Delegates also discussed designing an appropriate fiscal regime for the extractive industry and putting in a compliance monitoring framework. Those in attendance agreed that international standards were necessary to allow for a more effective exchange of information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The conference was attended by more than 120 delegates, mainly representing Commonwealth countries and international organisations, including the OECD and Adam Smith International.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">At a side event, the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia and the Seychelles Revenue Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which will see them work together on tax matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Duncan Onduru, the association\u2019s executive director, said that the conference had made for \u201ca very engaging week\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inadequate tax legislation that lags behind business practice is one of the biggest challenges to revenue officials, the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators\u2019 35th Technical Conference heard. The November conference, hosted by the Botswana Unified Revenue Service, took place in Gaborone with the theme Casting the Tax Net Further. Opening the five-day event, Botswana\u2019s Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,42,150,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions\/10703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}