Namibia: Taxman Targets Informal Sector

THE Inland Revenue Department at the finance ministry has stepped up efforts to collect tax from the informal sector following a tax proposal made by minister Calle Schlettwein last year.

Schlettwein told an event at Walvis Bay in November that the government would introduce a presumptive tax on the informal sector as one of the measures to protect the tax base from erosion.

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