{"id":107,"date":"2013-07-08T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T09:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/challenges-in-collecting-taxes-in-burundi\/"},"modified":"2014-06-02T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:59:56","slug":"challenges-in-collecting-taxes-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/challenges-in-collecting-taxes-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges in Collecting Taxes in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are challenges met in collecting taxes;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The country has a small tax base to collect taxes from<\/li>\n<li>The economy of Burundi is majorly subsistence economy depending on agricultural sector with households producing mainly for own consumption<\/li>\n<li>Poor infrastructure affects revenue collection in the country<\/li>\n<li>Low tax paying culture<\/li>\n<li>Large informal sector which has not yet been brought within the tax bracket<\/li>\n<li>Lack sensitization about the reasons for paying taxes<\/li>\n<li>Poor record keeping among tax payers affects revenue assessments and collection<\/li>\n<li>Weak governance structures, corrupt tendencies and excessive bureaucracy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are challenges met in collecting taxes; The country has a small tax base to collect taxes from The economy of Burundi is majorly subsistence economy depending on agricultural sector with households producing mainly for own consumption Poor infrastructure affects revenue collection in the country Low tax paying culture Large informal sector which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Xm5Y-1J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}