It's No Illusion, You Can Pay Taxes with a Smile : The Rwanda Case

In the push for tax reform, there was a twofold guiding principle: 1) to lower the cost of compliance for taxpayers, reduce the cash flow burden by allowing quarterly rather than monthly tax payments and expediting refunds, and minimize points and...

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Main Authors:	Murangwa, Hadija, Mukunya, David
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	taxation investment climate tax reform value added tax VAT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/04/23929135/no-illusion-can-pay-taxes-smile-rwanda-case http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22597

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description	In the push for tax reform, there was a twofold guiding principle: 1) to lower the cost of compliance for taxpayers, reduce the cash flow burden by allowing quarterly rather than monthly tax payments and expediting refunds, and minimize points and frequency of contact between taxpayers and the tax authority; and 2) to safeguard government revenue by protecting collections and reducing administrative costs. The ultimate objective was to encourage businesses to pay taxes via a more attractive system. Since 2008, the government of Rwanda has emphasized Doing Business reforms to improve Rwanda s attractiveness to local and international investors. In response, the World Bank Group launched its investment climate reform project to support the national reform agenda.
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title	It's No Illusion, You Can Pay Taxes with a Smile : The Rwanda Case
title_short	It's No Illusion, You Can Pay Taxes with a Smile : The Rwanda Case
title_full	It's No Illusion, You Can Pay Taxes with a Smile : The Rwanda Case
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It's No Illusion, You Can Pay Taxes with a Smile : The Rwanda Case

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