{"id":10823,"date":"2018-11-20T07:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T07:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10823"},"modified":"2018-11-22T07:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T07:01:38","slug":"burundi-revenue-authority-to-collect-bif-800-billion-during-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-revenue-authority-to-collect-bif-800-billion-during-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi Revenue Authority to collect BIF 800 billion during 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audace Niyonzima, Commissioner General of Burundi Revenue Authority-OBR says the revenues collected have significantly increased since the implementation of taxpayer\u2019s day in 2016.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10811\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10811\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Audace-Niyonzima-commissaire-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral-de-lOBR.jpg\" alt=\"Audace Niyonzima: \u201cOBR expects to collect BIF 800 billion following the fiscal conformity.\u201d \" width=\"402\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Audace-Niyonzima-commissaire-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral-de-lOBR.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Audace-Niyonzima-commissaire-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral-de-lOBR-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Audace-Niyonzima-commissaire-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral-de-lOBR-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Audace-Niyonzima-commissaire-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral-de-lOBR-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audace Niyonzima: \u201cOBR expects to collect BIF 800 billion following the fiscal conformity.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe taxes collected have moved from BIF 637 billion in 2016 to BIF 754 billion in 2017,\u201d says OBR Commissioner General adding that there has been an increase of 18% thanks to the raising of public awareness on the regular payment of taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Niyonzima also says OBR expects to collect BIF 800 billion in 2018 following the fiscal conformity. \u201cTaxpayers have understood the importance of paying taxes. The fight against corruption and goods smuggling has also contributed to the increase in the revenues that were collected,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Audace Niyonzima says the taxpayer\u2019s day will be celebrated on 5 December in Makamba southern province. He says it will be an opportunity to raise taxpayers\u2019 awareness of the issuance of the invoice to the customers after selling goods. \u201cWhen there is no invoice, it\u2019s an offense which costs 20% of the value of the goods,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audace Niyonzima, Commissioner General of Burundi Revenue Authority-OBR says the revenues collected have significantly increased since the implementation of taxpayer\u2019s day in 2016. \u201cThe taxes collected have moved from BIF 637 billion in 2016 to BIF 754 billion in 2017,\u201d says OBR Commissioner General adding that there has been an increase of 18% thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[113,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10824,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions\/10824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}