Malawi: MRA pilots Electronic Fiscal Devices, a new system of collecting VAT   22 March 2014 The Malawi Government has intensified its efforts to address various challenges it faces 

  Canada: OECD Releases Discussion Draft On Tax Challenges Of The Digital Economy   26 March 2014 On March 24, 2014, the OECD released a discussion draft identifying the major 

  Financing the Burundi Revenue Authority – throwing good money after good?   28 March 2014 African governments must be able to mobilise revenues from taxation if they are to 

  Nigeria’s Upward Revision of GDP Should Sound Alarm on Tax-to-GDP Ratio   3 April 2014 The long-anticipated rebasing of Nigeria’s GDP series was finally made public on Sunday April 

  Global economic crime spreads: Latvia has highest VAT shortfall   3 April 2014 RIGA – Economic crimes against enterprises and other legal persons continue to grow in the world. 

  Tanzania: TRA Compiles List of Firms Required to Use EFDs   10 April 2014 A list of business entities required to use electronic fiscal devices (EFD) has been put 

  Uganda: URA to tax government at source   13 April 2014 In the recent past, teachers and nurses have laid down tools demanding higher pay. Each time this happened, 

  India calls for data sharing on taxation   12 April 2014 India today called for data sharing on taxation and blamed the industrialised and developed nations for their reluctance 

  ‘Super tax’ on remittances to Africa hurts development -thinktank   16 April 2014 London (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Africans face the highest remittance fees globally, regularly paying a “super tax” 

  VAT Lottery: In Slovakia, Real Lottery Prize Goes to Tax Man   19 April 2014 When Jozef Lazarcik, a 35-year-old factory worker, heard his number called on national television 

  Slovakia has found the solution to increase the VAT collection   22 April 2014 Slovakia has found the solution to increase the VAT collection: a lottery tax receipts and 

  Namibia: Should the Informal Sector Be Formalised?   22 April 2014 Windhoek — Government should focus on the inclusion of the informal sector to boost its contribution to the 

  Macedonia: 5th drawing for the fiscal receipts lottery 28 April   22 April 2014 Macedonia/5th drawing for the fiscal receipts lottery 28 April. Citizens, except by post, can also 

  Rwanda: Traders Face Penalty Over E-Billing Machines   23 April 2014 Rwanda Revenue Authority has started penalising Value Added Tax (VAT) registered businesses that have not yet acquired electronic 

  Tanzania: President Kikwete directs on EFD tax machine use/price is main issue   27 April 2014 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Traders in the country will have no room 

  Tanzania: TRA confers with agencies over EFD prices   27 April 2014  The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has resumed a training programme directed at the business community in a 

  Uganda: URA to Train MPs in Tax Collection   1 May 2014 The Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority Allen Kagina has offered to train MPs in tax collection 

  Zimbabwe: Zimra to review fiscalisation system   2 May 2014 The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is reviewing the fiscalisation system after some challenges were encountered since its introduction a 

  Zimbabwe: Fiscalisation project stalls   4 May 2014 Business Editor   Ten days from now Tanzania’s taxman, Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), expects consumers to demand fiscal receipts for everything 

  Botswana post introduces smart card    2 May 2014 Monthend long queus at post offices across the country, especially during facilitation of social benefit payments, are expected to be 

  Tanzania: TRA, Big business rallies traders against EFD use   5 May 2014 Devices for businesses making over 14m/- annually, yet street vendors in protest. In a bid to 

  Tanzania: Traders refusing to use EFDs to go to jail for three years, TRA warns   8 May 2014 Businesses and trading enterprises that are by law supposed to 

  Tanzania: All fuel filling stations across the country will use Electronic Fiscal Devices    6 May 2014 Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has embarked on measures to ensure that fuel 

  Rwanda races for revenue targets   11 May 2014 KIGALI, Rwanda – The Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) is finding ways improving efficiencies in revenue collection so that it reach 

  How Tanzania loses $1.87 billion annually   13 May 2014 Tanzania loses about Sh3 trillion ($1.87 billion) in tax revenue every year through cheating by dishonest companies in import 

  World Bank To Help Bangladesh On VAT   15 May 2014 The World Bank Board has approved USD60m in interest-free credit to modernize the administration of Bangladesh’s value-added tax 

     21 Mar A Tanzania: TRA Moves to Tame Fuel Tax Cheats THE Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) is on its final trials before fixing Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs) at 

  Mexico: Electronic arm-twisting   20 May 2014 SANTO DOMINGO square in downtown Mexico City is a colonial jewel where old-fashioned scribes write letters for the illiterate. Until a few 

  VAT lottery bears first fruits   19 May 2014 Early calculations by state economists show that the real impact of the receipt lottery on the collection of value-added tax 

  Uganda: URA, KCCA in partnership to collect revenue   The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) have signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration in 

  African Tax Collections Grew By 1.6 Percent Of GDP In 2012   22 May 2014 The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has released a new report advising African 

  Ethiopia: ERCA Collected 79 Billion Birr during the Past 9 Months   22 May 2014 A report released by the Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA) on Monday, May 

  Nigeria: Multiple Taxes – Cross River Deploys ICT for Revenue Collection   26 May 2014 Senior IT. Correspondent Local government areas in Cross River State have introduced payment of 

  Rwanda: RRA Concerned As Traders Shun Billing Machines   28 May 2014 The tax authority is concerned that many traders, especially in the small and medium business cluster, are 

  EU calls for common position on tax for digital economy   28 May 2014 Commission report says corporation tax rules may have to be adapted to respond to digitalisation 

  Nigeria: VAT Difficult To Measure -FIRS Boss   4 July 2014 ABUJA – Alhaji Kabir Mashi, Acting Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), said it was technically difficult 

  Pakistan: FBR to have real-time access of sale, purchase data   4 July 2014   KARACHI: Registered retailers have been mandatorily required to issue invoices through the Fiscal Electronic