The Ministry of Finance is preparing to be 2020 the year of the largest tax collection
Economy today:
The Ministry of Finance did not announce a number for the amount of tax collections and revenues achieved during the year 2019, but rather said by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mamoun Hamdan, that these financial investigations and collections with the directorates of the money are not convincing, and do not equal the size of the economic activity, and it is not permissible to continue comparing the collections numbers with previous years, Because it is an inaccurate indicator, especially since past years cannot be adopted due to the general conditions that the country was going through, while the achievements and achievements of the financial departments must be consistent with the movement of economic activity in its various industrial, commercial and other sectors.
Despite this, an increase occurred and reached 40% of the amount of revenue and tax collection for the year 2018, according to figures from the Damascus Capital Directorate and its countryside, and the reason is the return of hundreds of industrial and economic facilities to production.
Among the important projects carried out by the Ministry of Finance this year is the automation of the work of the financial departments, which it started from the Finance Directorate in Damascus to circulate after this experience to the directorates of money in the governorates during the next year and link them to the Ministry of Finance and the Tax and Fees Authority, which is the basis for the electronic payment project that is supposed to be launched with Beginning of the year 2020.
This is expected to issue a significant number of legal instruments and projects, especially the new tax law, which had the largest share of meetings this year, especially after the formation of an inspection committee from the Ministry of Finance and the Central Authority for Supervision and Inspection and the Central Agency for Financial Supervision to discuss the causes of tax accumulation Not accomplished for the senior taxpayers in the governorates, treatment and accountability of the negligent, and then the formation of an inspection mission to reach positive results in this file, which appears to be the last days of the current year indicating by numbers the amount of money that will be recovered as a result of tax evasion Or files large customs, and all this will bring to the state treasury considerable revenue was lost as a result of smuggled senior taxpayers.
