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REFUND OF TAXES INTERNAL REVENUE During the year 2014, a total of seven hundred and seventeen million, four hundred
and seventy-nine thousand, nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars ($717, 479,929.00) was refunded to several categories of taxpayers as shown in Table IX below. As at December 31, 2014 the estimate of unpaid refunds was one million, one hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars ($1,149,000.00).
TABLE IX REFUNDS PAID BY TAX TYPE ($) VALUE-ADDED TAX Requests for refunds can arise in two main categories namely refund of input tax claimed under Section
35 of the VAT Act 2005 and refunds for special cases (Diplomats/Diplomatic missions/non-resident
individuals etc, claimed under Section 37 of the Act. During the year under review, staff received a total of one thousand, five hundred and seventy-one (1,571) claims for refund of taxes amounting to B.
One thousand, five hundred and twenty-nine (1,529) claims were processed comprising one thousand, two hundred and ninety-three (1,293) claims under Section 35 and two hundred and thirty- six (236) claimed
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