Taxation in Namibia

**juikk** · 6th March 2008, 09:45 AM

Is Jan Tax a little too greedy to the detriment of the tax payers or is it just me. It feels half the time half my, if not more, of my income end up in the Namibian tax coffers. VAT, PAYEE, and the hell knows what else seem to empty ones pocket before one can actually spend a dime one works so hard for. It feels we are paying more than double the time for tax, when doing shopping, getting a salary, getting some few extra bucks, etc. Maybe Tax should be a subject at school level and GRN should maybe start a Tax for dummies school so we don't feel so disgrantled, that is if at all fair. To top the cake with it's layers of multiple daylight robbery, now we also pay tax on air time, where is it going to end?

Here is a less emotional look at it:

http://www.ippr.org.na/Non-IPPR%20re...15Dec20021.doc

Anyone have an opinion on the TAX issue?

**Comrade007** · 6th March 2008, 10:16 AM

If it wasn't for the huge amount of wasteful expenditures in the public service for salaries and really unecessary stuff I would accept higher tax rates. But as it is, we pay more for less - efficiency in the public service does not seem to improve along with increases in taxation, neither does value-for-money.

Now the politicians like to say that the huge Government payroll for the burgeoning public service is the price for stability in our Republic. That may be partly true, but it is not a reason not to demand better perfromance and better efficiency by the public service.

At the moment my hard-earned taxes go to in part to pay people who don't lift a finger, and noone tells them to do it either - that's neither fair, nor is it gooing to get our country ahead. In our country taxes are not spent on growing the economy as such, but on consumption expenditure by many many thousands of very important people.

**Oneword** · 6th March 2008, 01:57 PM

For tax year ending 28 February 2009:

N$ N$ N$ N$

0 36 000 0 0

36 001 40 000 0 15,5%

40 001 80 000 700 29,5%

80 001 200 000 12 500 34,5%

200 001 and over 53 900 35.0%