Kiir forms committee to investigate taxation on South Sudan’s borders
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By Amoko Robert
May 22 2011 (JUBA) - The President of the Government of Southern Sudan
Salva Kiir has urgently formed a committee to investigate officers who
are working at border points in Juba .
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Kiir issued a decree forming a committee to investigate those who are
responsible of misusing the funds at border points in South Sudan’s
capital.
The presidential degree also seeks to impose controls over Sudanese
and foreign traders entering the regional capital Juba.
Last month the Southern Sudanese President, who will be the leader of
an independent country in July, visited neighbouring Kenya, to discuss
bilateral ties. Both leaders have expressed their commitment to fully
protect southern Sudanese living in Kenya as well as Kenyans living in
South Sudan.
The discussion also includes permanent trade relations and South Sudan
joining the East Africa Community (EAC).
Kiir’s decree also gave power to the committee to investigate
government institutions as well as the private companies that have
been accused of illegally collecting taxes.
The investigation committee will be headed by the minister of commerce
and industry Dhieu Stephen and seven other top government officials
from various ministries.
They have been tasked with identifying any unauthorized institutions
that may be collecting taxes, and bringing them to book. The committee
is expected to present its report to the President within 30 days.
As South Sudan approaches independence cases of malpractice and
corruption at the region’s borders have arisen. Many traders complain
of high taxation at border checkpoints. Some say that they have to pay
in taxes three times what the goods cost to purchase in Uganda and
Kenya.
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