The South Sudanese government has addressed the issue of its customs systems at the Mombasa port, denying allegations of collecting taxes at the port, which had led to congestion of cargo.
Speaking in Mombasa on Wednesday, January 15, Simon Akuei Deng, the Commissioner General of the South Sudan National Revenue Authority (SSRA), clarified that the newly implemented customs system was intended to enhance transparency in cargo invoicing.
He dismissed the claims of tax collection at the Mombasa port, maintaining that they were installing a system to improve transparency in cargo importation in line with East African Community customs protocols, similar to other countries that have already implemented customs systems at the port. "All the countries in the region have systems in Mombasa, this is exactly what we want to do.
We want to install a system in Mombasa to bring originality to the invoices coming from different countries because there is a system already in place, we just need to tap into the EAC systems being used here," he stated.
