Another Corruption Check & Good Governance by Minister, Zamzam Abdi Adan

The Somaliland Minister for Finance, Zamzam Abdi Adan, in a press conference in her office along with senior officials of the ministry, publicized today a new system of collecting the Vehicular Road Utilization tax, or what is known in the western countries as tag registration fee, levied on all cars and trucks on semiannual basis in Somaliland. In the old way, a paper certificate that can be easily tampered and copied was used which made the system unfair to all as hundreds of thousands were evading the tax payment. But rather, the new system taps into modern chip technologies and would be harder to be eluded. Chip-implanted cards would be issued once taxes are paid and the traffic police would be equipped with the chip detectors.