AN ONLINE TAX MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR TAXIS IN KAMPALA
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AN ONLINE TAX MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR TAXIS IN KAMPALA
Chapter 1: An Online Tax Management System for Taxis in Kampala
1.1. Background of the study.
Today, tax considerations affect almost every area of business operations. Tax specialists are always monitoring changes in tax rules and analysing how they may effect you and your organisation.
Computerised, integrated tax information systems serve as the core data station, powering practically all everyday operations of modern tax administrations around the world.
Tax administrators in many organisations, however, continue to deal with paper-based, primarily manual tax information systems, or, at best, data systems supported by extremely limited, old, and inadequate computer hardware and software. (Arturo A. Jacobs, 2004).
Early efforts to modernise organisations’ tax information systems through projects funded by international development agencies always present a unique set of challenges and needs that, in the researcher’s opinion, are not always adequately addressed during the design stage, for a variety of reasons outlined below.
The most important and frequently overlooked tools are those that may best serve tax administrators’ operational demands in specific situations. (Arturo A. Jacobs, 2004).
Tax administrators in almost every organisation are under constant pressure to modernise their existing computerised information systems in order to meet the challenges of increased public demand for services, flat or reduced budgets, required productivity increases, and increased revenue maximisation requirements to fund government operations.
To fulfil all of these demands, tax administrators have rapidly adopted numerous technical improvements employed in the private sector, such as electronic commerce, interactive telephone systems, and data capture through the scanning or image of paper documents.
Tax authorities have been moving aggressively to restructure their core business procedures and deploy electronic receipt, processing, and distribution techniques. However, for some organisations, a shift in technology to embrace tax management is a journey into the unknown, and KCCA is one of these organisations that still relies on a manual approach to handle its taxes.
A tax is a mandatory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of individuals or organisations, on the production costs or sales prices of products and services
A tax management information system is a sort of information system that assists in the establishment and management of tax processing as well as the compliance with tax rules. Many software systems now include “wizards” that guide users through the procedure as efficiently and correctly as possible. (Finance, 2012
1.2 Case Study Description
The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is a legal institution established by Parliament that oversees the activities of Uganda’s capital city, Kampala. It succeeded the earlier Kampala City Council (KCC). KCCA is led by the executive director, who is responsible with the executive functions of governing Kampala City.
The Kampala Capital City Authority is a corporate body with perpetual succession that has the authority to sue and be sued in its corporate name, as well as do, enjoy, or suffer anything that a body corporate can.
The Authority is the Capital City’s governing body, which governs the city on behalf of the central government. KCCA currently employs a manual tax management system for cabs.
This technique is slow, and it’s difficult to rapidly follow those cabs that have paid taxes and those who haven’t, thus the research was conducted to build an online tax administration system for taxis with a focus on KCCA.
1.3 Statement Of The Problem
The current approach is manual; it is slow, prone to errors, and makes it difficult to trace which cabs have and have not paid taxes. This reduces the overall tax burden on the return.
1.4 Objectives Of The Project
1.4.1 General Objectives
Develop a tax management information system for taxis in Kampala.
1.4.2 Specific objectives
i. To investigate the current tax management system in Kampala, identifying its faults and strengths.
ii. Create an online tax management system for taxis. iii. Implement a tax management system for KCCA. iv. Validate the tax management system.
1.5 Scope of the Study
System scope
The established system allows for online checking of tax defaulters and maintains a database of taxis that have paid their taxes and those that have not. The system will also compute monthly tax collections and generate receipts following each payment.
Time scope
The system was designed and implemented in under two months. During this period, the researcher collected data on the previous system, described the user and system requirements, and built and implemented the new KKCA online tax management system.
1.6 Justification for the Study
If computerised, integrated tax information systems are to be approved and perceived as successful, tax administrators and support people must believe that they are receiving significant benefits.
A computerised tax administration system can only work effectively if the users’ requirements for applications customised to each organisation are carefully and thoroughly defined. Implementing an e-tax system offers benefits such as supporting and simplifying tax administration, as well as providing faster access to information for users.
iii. Identify non-compliant taxpayers. iv. Produce timely reports compared to manual systems.
Given all of these benefits, the design and implementation of an online taxonomic management system is ultimately unquestionable.
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