Tax administration reforms from budgets and COVID-19 18th Dec 2020 | Source: Graphic Online
Abeku Gyan-Quansah
With very bright prospects when the Minister of Finance presented the budget to Parliament in November 2019, little did anyone expect the COVID-19 pandemic to strike and send shock waves across the entire globe.
These bright prospects were reflected in the very promising theme of “Consolidating the Gains for Growth, Jobs and Prosperity for All” for the 2020 National Budget.
As COVID-19 had distorted several of Government’s initial plans, it was clearly time for a complete revision of the initial estimates in the 2020 budget.
Following from this, as in our previous series on indirect tax and direct tax policy measures, the series continues and attempts to explore the position of the initial 2020 budget estimate and the mid-year fiscal review, this time from the perspective of tax administration measures or proposals.
Published on: Sunday, December 13, 2020
By: Nicholas Chung
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TWO events in 1992 made history for Tawau. The first was when I hosted the visit in April by Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, then Finance Minister; he was the first Federal Finance Minister to call at any Customs Station in Sabah.
Soon after that, shortly before I left Tawau, I hosted an official visit by the then Director-General of the Bea dan Cukai Department of the Republic of Indonesia, Bapak Soehardjo and his deputy Bapak Ali Purwito. They were in Tawau for a fact-finding mission and also to observe cross-border trade operations between Tawau and Kalimantan.
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