Togo: Tax Authority recruits more peer educators to promote tax payment nationwide

Economic governance
Friday, 05 November 2021 11:56
Togo: Tax Authority recruits more peer educators to promote tax payment nationwide

(Togo First) - Satisfied with the results of the peer educators it recruited and dispatched in 2019, Togo’s tax authority (OTR) has decided to get more. From 274, the number of educators will increase to 600 this year. A training workshop was recently launched to this end.

“We have recruited 326 new peer educators, making a total of 600 who will, over the 2021-2022 period, relay our laws, decisions, and information related to the general tax code to populations and taxpayers,” said Assindoh Mouhamed Nour-Dine, OTR’s Director of Communication and Services during the workshop. “Our goal is to cover the whole country, to sensitize and educate taxpayers,” he added.

Mainly, the peer educators will encourage people to pay their taxes and teach those willing to do so how they should proceed.

“Tax compliance is achieved by getting people to voluntarily pay their taxes without coercion,” the OTR official explained. 

Topics taught to the newly-recruited trainees include fundamentals of tax administration, fiscal challenges in Togo in 2022, and communication with populations.

Ayi Renaud Dossavi

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