No refund claims until June ..as NamRA detects tax refund scam worth N$15m

Tujoromajo Kasuto The Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) has uncovered a tax refund scam involving N$15 million paid out to 122 taxpayers. The agency has initiated what could be its first major fraud investigation and has announced that significant progress and discoveries have been made. It announced that no refund claims will be processed for provisional taxpayers until 30 June 2022. The moratorium will however not affect tax refund claims of other tax types such as individual taxpayers and value added tax claims. NamRA commissioner, Sam Shivute says that they have already opened criminal cases against identified suspects, while the administrative…