How tragic-comic
we can not get the tax in, because we have no money to produce receipts.

I have noticed that in The Gambia when you pay to the authorities, there
normally are 3-5 copies. I always ask "where will you store all the
receipts" ?, "how can you find it again"?, "for how many years "? And no one
has given me a strait answer. Who control all the copies, when ? If I was
employed in the administration, the first thing I would try and look into
should be all that paper, and copies. What are they good for ? Has it ever
made the administration better, faster, easier, more transparent ?

Comment from Asbjørn Nordam


on 19/08/02 22:00, Momodou Camara at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Income Tax Short of Receipt Books
> 
> The Independent (Banjul)
> NEWS
> August 19, 2002
> Posted to the web August 19, 2002
> 
> By Seedy Bojang
> Banjul
> 
> Reports leaking to The Independent from the Department of Central Revenue
> indicate that the Income Tax Department is short of receipt books, making
> official transaction difficult.
> 
> According to reports, the shortage of cashbooks has temporarily suspended cash
> transactions, including the documentation of cash records.
> 
> An insider said the Accountant General's Department, which is responsible for
> the supply of receipt books, had failed to produce or supply the Income Tax
> Department with cashbooks over the last couple of months. This problem has not
> only affected the income tax, but also other departments among them the
> Department of health, he said.
> 
> According to him, a lot of adjustments needed to be done to redress certain
> abnormalities and irregularities at the department, which he said if unchecked
> would paralyse the department.
> 
> At the time of investigating this report, the income tax cashier had asked an
> old man to return the following week to effect his transaction, because of
> shortage of receipt books.
> 
> When contacted the Commissioner of Revenue, Samba Saye, denied any knowledge
> of
> the shortage.
> 
> The principal accountant and the deputy Accountant General also declined to
> shed light on the issue, referring this reporter instead to the Accountant
> General, Margaret Keita who said she couldn't talk to the press, because of a
> busy schedule. She said she was holding meetings with experts.
> 
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