At least twenty-five staff from the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) recently concluded five days of intensive training on Gambia Revenue Laws.
The training was organized by the GRA Legal and Board Services Department with support from the French Development Agency (AFD).
Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Deputy Commissioner General and Head of Domestic at GRA, Essa Jallow expressed profound gratitude and appreciation to be associated with the training meant for the staff of GRA.
He said outlined the objective of the training which was to remind the staff about their roles and responsibilities as revenue collectors, thus the need to be well familiar with the revenue laws to be better effective and efficient in the discharge of their function.
The Deputy CG thanked the AFD for funding the training saying “We must recognize the inextricable link between increasing our revenue collection and having the appropriate laws and best tax administration practices”.
As a tax administration, we would continue to pursue and implement sound policies, legislation, and systems to modernize the processes and procedures to enhance revenue collection and improve the delivery of taxpayer services.
According to Mr. Jallow “One of the principal responsibilities of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs is to formulate tax policies which are enacted into law by the National Assembly”.
He added that once these revenue laws are passed they become working tools for us as we need to apply them in our day-to-day work.