{"id":177313,"date":"2024-07-26T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T12:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namra-gets-tough-on-fishing-companies\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T12:25:39","slug":"namibia-namra-gets-tough-on-fishing-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namra-gets-tough-on-fishing-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Namra Gets Tough On Fishing Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">&#8230; recovers N$20 million in tax fraud<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><strong>After recovering more than N$20 million from 14 fishing companies who have been avoiding paying tax, the Namibia Revenue Agency (Namra) has decided to intensify investigations into the fishing sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Despite being one of the top sectors contributing to the Namibian economy over the years, Namra spokesperson Steven Ndorokaze says the fishing industry has been among the lowest contributors to the treasury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;Over the years, the fishing industry has been among&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407260219.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; recovers N$20 million in tax fraud After recovering more than N$20 million from 14 fishing companies who have been avoiding paying tax, the Namibia Revenue Agency (Namra) has decided to intensify investigations into the fishing sector. Despite being one of the top sectors contributing to the Namibian economy over the years, Namra spokesperson Steven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9704,6919,4706,724,38326,257,254,5039],"class_list":["post-177313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-companies","tag-fishing","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namra","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tough"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}