AMMAN —
Minister of Finance Mohammad Ississ said Monday that the shift to applying
digital control of tobacco factories instead of direct control is one of the
most important tax reform projects, according to Jo24.
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During his visit to
the Income and Sales Tax Department, he said that the application of digital
control “will enable the department to subject the targeted factories to
digital supervision according to the latest globally applied systems, in order
to stop traditional direct human control”.
“The use of this
system will have a role in protecting the national industry and will guarantee
consumers’ access to original products that are not counterfeit, fraudulent, or
smuggled,” he said.
During the visit,
the minister was briefed on the digital control system that the department will
launch in order to raise the efficiency of the tax control systems of factories
and companies producing cigarettes, beverages, and honey.
He was briefed
about the objectives of the system and given an overview of the importance of
implementing the system, its mechanism of action, the scope of the project and
its stages.
Director-General of
the Income and Sales Tax Department Hossam Abu Ali said that the application of
the digital control system will enable the department to control the management
and operations at the production sites (cigarette production factories).
He said that could
be done using an integrated control software through which the cigarette
production process is approved, starting from the beginning of the production
process and ending with tracking it in the markets by placing distinctive
electronic signs unique to all products in order to reduce the traditional
direct control in factories.
Abu Ali said, that
the system “will enable the department and the relevant regulatory authorities
to monitor all types of cigarettes and tobacco, and at a later stage, the
system will be applied to various other products to ensure that they are
produced by licensed factories within the Kingdom”.
“The system will
enable the regulatory authorities to discover all types of cigarettes that do
not bear electronic marks for digital control, in a manner that enables the
regulatory authorities to track the source of smoke and the products bearing
these signs, and thus discover counterfeit or smuggled cigarettes and their
source,” said Abu Ali, pointing out that the use of this system means the
application of best practices in tax control.
It is used in
developed countries and is applied for the first time in the Middle East by a
government agency, he added. It also contributes to consistency with
international practices in relation to the WHO protocol to combat illicit trade
in tobacco.
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