20/04/2021

The Financial and Economic Committee of the Senate headed by Al-Ain Jamal Al-Sarayreh visited the Income and Sales Tax Department to review the various tax reforms.

Al-Ain Al-Sarayreh said that the committee reviewed the most important reform projects pursued by the department, especially in the field of combating tax evasion, dealing with tax avoidance, achieving tax justice and reaching the real taxpayers who must pay the tax, appreciating the advanced level of tax services provided to taxpayers.

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohammad Al-Assas, said that the reform projects implemented by the department include, in parallel, the service of tax-obligated taxpayers and the improvement of the services provided to them, along with reform projects for combating tax evasion, dealing with tax avoidance and following up on tax violators, so that these procedures become framed. Within the institutional work of the department.

He pointed out that the tax collections for the year 2020 showed the impact of those reform projects on addressing tax distortions and imbalances, addressing the effects of the Corona pandemic and mitigating its effects on tax collections.

The Director General of the Income and Sales Tax Department, Dr. Hussam Abu Ali, presented the department's performance in the field of collections and audits for the year 2020 and the first quarter of this year, in addition to the tax reforms that are divided into three main packages, which are a reform package dedicated to combating tax evasion and tax avoidance, depending on Risk management in accordance with internationally applied practices instead of relying on news, and includes analysis and study of financial data for all sectors without targeting any particular sector or taxpayer, or even excluding any sector or taxpayer from implementing the plan.

As for the second package, it includes the department’s procedures for electronic connectivity with all relevant authorities in the public and private sectors to ensure that auditors practice tax auditing with high efficiency and in a way that enables the collection of treasury rights and tax justice, while the third package is devoted to clarifying the reforms that have been made to improve services. For taxpayers who are tax-bound by adopting the golden list, which included the speedy access of taxpayers joining this list to services easily and without delay, especially with regard to the payment of tax "refunds", delaying payment of tax on imports, and the approval of the membership certificate in place of the tax clearance.