WSJ: KABUL—For decades, most businesses in Kabul’s busy Mandawi market got by without paying their taxes. That changed when the Taliban swept to power. Now every shop is ponying up, said Haji Hafeezullah Ismati, who sells fur hats in the market. For some of them, the added cost has proven untenable. A friend and fellow
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 16, 2022 Afghans are struggling to make ends meet amid an economic crisis that has disrupted basic services, left them with rising costs and dim employment prospects, and battered the health and financial sectors. But the country’s Taliban leaders, limited to domestic revenue to fund its first annual budget, have
CBC: Setting up regulations and tax collection ‘to make the Taliban look like a state’ – The Taliban in Afghanistan are becoming what one think-tank calls a “government in waiting,” taxing individuals in the provinces and extending a kind of regulatory jurisdiction over medical clinics and other public institutions. The Taliban have their own tax
1TV: The Afghan wedding halls will no longer receive “cash payments” from their customers based on the Finance Ministry’s new measure. The plan will require wedding halls to receive payments from their customers through the banking system. The measure is part of efforts to counter corruption and tax evasion. Click here to read more (external link).
Reuters: A new tax regime aimed at weaning Afghanistan off international aid has boosted government revenues but drawn complaints from some private businesses that it hits them unfairly, dampening hopes of economic recovery after decades of war. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 5, 2016 The Afghan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) has said that it will ground Safi Airways, one of the country’s major airlines, for failing to pay taxes amounting to 1.6 billion afghanis ($16.7 million). “On September 6, all domestic flights, and on September 8 all international flights are suspended,” ACAA