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Taking the Lead in the Agenda for Change – NRA registers over 1,200 Businesses

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Author: Richard B Bockarie - SEM

After setting example and taking the lead in the President’s Agenda for Change for the past one year, the National Revenue Authority (NRA) has continued to maintain its leadership role to re-brand the country from a donor driven economy to a self sustaining one as proclaimed by the President his inauguration speech in 2007 and as reiterated in his latest address of the house of representatives in the country.

Added to mark set in revenue collection in the past one year, the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax-GST invented to centralise the collection of taxes has already begun seeing phenomenal success as over 1,200 large businesses have already been registered; beating the initial goal of targeting of the NRA which stood at 100 business the Commissioner General-CG of the National Revenue Authority Allieu Sesay has revealed in an interview grated to Sierra Express Media yesterday.

The Commissioner General in his words said the GST and other innovations the President talked about in his speech to Parliament are geared towards lessoning contact between the tax payer and the collectors and centralising the burden of collecting petty taxes that could prove unproductive for the country’s revenue base.

Talking on the role of the NRA in the Agenda for Change and re-branding process of the country the CG said “the President’s Agenda for Change and re-branding process basically entails independence from the yoke of donor driven economy, operating a tax base economy that will provide for the needs of the people such as food, electricity, infrastructure, and health care service delivery and education”. 

The NRA Chief outlined many areas where the NRA hopes to work with the central government in ensuring the agenda for change is attained which he described as a process that has already begun.

Look out next week for our full interview with the Commissioner General on the Agenda for Change and the Re-branding of the Country using tax. 

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