Inland Revenue Dept., now a den of thieves?

Jun 25, 2016

The trade unions joint committee of the Inland Revenue Department has complained to the president and the cabinet that revenue collection, general administration and all other functions have suffered a serious collapse due to the commissioner general and other top management officials’ blatant violation of constitutional and regulatory requirements and acting in a fraudulent manner.

Delaying the auditing and investigating tax files, hiding the actual incomes of taxpayers, assessing taxes below the actual amounts, intentionally delaying the levying of taxes from major companies and covering up tax levying from companies over improper agreements have all led to a serious collapse of the inland revenue activities, the complaint says.

The letter also complains about the authoritarian transfer given to the investigation unit chief to another division although he had carried out duties properly. It draws attention to the authoritarian and fraudulent conduct of the present inland revenue commissioner general as well.

The TUs note in the letter that supervision is wholly inadequate in the department, there are fraudulent groupings by top officials, disregard for financial regulations and the establishment code requirements, delay in collecting revenue and the absence of a subject-based tax evaluation method. All of these have led to the Inland Revenue Department having become a den of thieves, they add.