Bernard Sanya - countries offer tax incentives without costing them, driven by politics, and private benefit for highly connected syndicates. Tax competition is a realitypic.twitter.com/6VlDR1byUE
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Bernard Sanya - countries offer tax incentives without costing them, driven by politics, and private benefit for highly connected syndicates. Tax competition is a realitypic.twitter.com/6VlDR1byUE
Key issues: over valued imports of equipment. Companies move equipment around the region claiming capital allowances each time, abuse of ring fencing provisions
Govts should move away from individual negotiations with companies and put the terms into the fiscal code
Need for transparency on incentives & tax expenditures. Civil society should monitor the implementation of the concession and the revenue flows
Athelia: Tax incentives are not necessarily useful - eg company asked for incentive to avoid laying off staff, but they still laid off 1000 staffpic.twitter.com/KtZRg5EIWB
Athelia talking about the challenge of taxing small scale mining, along the chain of miners and brokers. Where the money is concentrated so are the political connections.pic.twitter.com/Jzx6exeFOD
Taxes are paid in kind as goldpic.twitter.com/zUWRfRA3ua
Technology solutions apps being developed to track minerals to avoid conflict minerals, can also use this to track money flows. Also tax at the point of export permit.pic.twitter.com/KYS0R4b4ma
Discussion on the problem of auditing exploration & development costs. In Ghana at the point of production beginning the EA has a right to audit all costs before they are capitalised, but need. To have rules to support information availability
Are all incentives bad? No and some like accelerated depreciation, loss carry forwards are structural to the industry, vat exemptions may be justified, depending on capacity to give refunds
audits for cost recovery (by auditor general) and income tax (by revenue authority) . Who should do it? Can it be coordinated to audit once?
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