KABUL (SW): Officials at the Ministry of Finance said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set a target of 153 billion AFNs for collecting national income in the fiscal year 1396, and this ministry has been able to collect 135 billion AFN from domestic sources by the end of the eleventh month of the fiscal year.
Ajmal Hamid Abdul Rahimzai, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Finance, told Salam Watandar that collecting 135 billion AFNs from domestic revenues in the 11 months of this year is a fight against corruption, reform of the country’s revenue sources and raising the staffing capacity of the customs.
According to him, they will earn more money by the end of the fiscal year.
Officials at the Ministry of Finance said most of the government’s revenue comes from customs, accounting for more than 50 percent of the national income. They added that the rest of the domestic revenues come from taxpayers, mines and other sources of revenue.
Last year, the IMF had set a goal of 132 billion AFNs for the government of Afghanistan to collect for the national income, but the ministry was able to collect more than the set goal of about 165 billion AFNs by the end of the fiscal year.
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