{"id":4480,"date":"2025-04-25T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:58:11","slug":"revenue-authority-warns-do-not-pay-taxes-in-cash-payments-only-through-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4480","title":{"rendered":"Revenue Authority Warns: Do Not Pay Taxes in Cash\u2014Payments Only Through Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Juba \u2013 Al-Naeem Mubarak Kul<br>The Commissioner General of South Sudan\u2019s Revenue Authority, Simon Akuei, has issued a stern warning to business owners and citizens against dealing with individuals claiming to represent the authority and requesting cash tax payments.<br>Akuei emphasized that all tax-related financial transactions must be conducted exclusively through accredited banks in Juba as part of the authority\u2019s broader shift toward full automation and digitization of the tax collection system.<br>In a public statement, he said, &#8220;Sooner or later, we will reach 90% digitization in tax collection. Therefore, it is crucial to clarify that anyone approaching businesses to collect cash payments is a thief.<br> Payments should only be made through banks\u2014not to individuals inside or outside offices.&#8221;<br>The Commissioner General also urged all taxpayers and stakeholders to immediately report any attempts to collect funds outside official channels, stressing that safeguarding public and private funds is a collective responsibility.<br><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250425_155630_147.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba \u2013 Al-Naeem Mubarak KulThe Commissioner General of South Sudan\u2019s Revenue Authority, Simon Akuei, has issued a stern warning to business owners and citizens against dealing with individuals claiming to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}