Automobile Stamp Duty: Gov’t Tightens Control Knot

A countrywide operation to ensure the effective payment of the tax popularly known as windscreen licence fee is being carried out by officials of the Directorate General of Taxation

Officials of the Directorate General of Taxation in the Ministry of Finance are carrying out a nationwide campaign to control the effective payment of automobile stamp duty by vehicle owners. The revenue recovery operation kicked off on Tuesday March 27, at the close of the first quarter of the 2018 fiscal year.

According to Ebune Bertrand Njuma, Senior Tax Inspector at the Tax Legislation Unit of the General Directorate of Taxation, the exercise has been going on unperturbed across the country. The Senior Tax Inspector said teams from the Directorate General of Taxation have been carrying out sporadic checks at strategic points so that noncompliant motorists do not dodge from them.

Though the amount of taxes recovered so far thanks to the operation was not readily available by press time, Cameroon Tribune learned the efforts have been paying off. Taxation officials told Cameroon Tribune they were still tallying the amount of money deposited within the last three months at specified taxation centers by insurance companies which now have the responsibility to collect the said taxes from their clients. However, the State revenue accruing from automobile stamp duty last year stood at about FCFA 8.7 billion.

A car owner we accosted at Airport Road in Yaounde, Yves Mbossa said he had paid the required stamp duty in early February 2018. “I paid it at the time I was buying an insurance policy for my car. I am very conscious the State needs such resources for it normal functioning. Moreover, I don’t like to be embarrassed during ...

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