South Sudan: Oil Shutdown Is Correcting Tax Revenue Shortfall in Unity State - Official

20 January 2013

Bentiu — The financial crisis caused by the year-long oil shutdown in South Sudan is forcing Unity state to address the government's relaxed attitude to tax collection, the state's minister of agriculture and forestry told Sudan Tribune.

Samuel Lony Geng said Friday that since South Sudan split from Sudan in 2011 the process for collecting tax revenues has remained "very weak".

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