NBGS’ Revenue Chief Appears Before Parliamentarians Northern Bahr el Ghazal State’s Revenue Authority (SRA) Commissioner Hon. Mareng Chuor Deng has appeared before the State Legislative Assembly to answer queries on the commission.
19 April 2013 SRA Commissioner Mareng Chuor answering queries from the State Parliamentarians on Wednesday. [Gurtong| Abraham Agoth] By Abraham Agoth, AWEIL, 19 April 2013 [Gurtong] - Addressing the parliamentarians in the August house on Wednesday, Chuor denied having jointly worked with traffic police. He insisted that he has been taking sole responsibility over collecting all taxes and hands over to the finance department for banking. The Traffic Director and the Revenue Commissioner are being grilled by the state parliamentarians on issues of whose mandate it is to collect motorbikes, vehicles and raksha [three-wheel machine] license fees. “On my part plus my documents, including the national council of ministers resolutions, state minister of finance’s letter to the governor and the contract that I have signed with companies that print the number plates, I still say on a legal ground that this licensing and taxes fall under the ministry of Finance which is implemented the SRA,” Mareng clarified. He was not convinced that the work has something to do with police since tax collection has been centralized. Mareng said his commission only charges a definite rate for number plates of 280 SSP and denied knowing how and where the police charge 500 SSP for a number plate. Chuor welcomes the decision taken by legislators to cease the on-going process of collecting money for number plates from the owners until a ruling is made on it. The State Police Commissioner also denied having any clue on the management of the number plate license fees. The State Legislators are demanding the three institutions, SRA Commissioner, Traffic Police Director and the NBGS Police Commissioner to appear for clarifications on Monday before forming an investigation committee for a fact-finding mission. Posted in: Home, Governance, Parliaments -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
