The Tax Authority (AT) launched, this morning in Maputo, the campaign to control the invoicing of products by economic agents, in an initiative that covers the whole country.

The inspection aims to assess compliance with tax obligations by all economic agents in all their commercial transactions.

The launch was marked by an inspection work by a team from the AT led by the Director General of Taxes, Lurdes Banze, who scaled the Shoprite supermarket, in the Marés commercial complex, in the city of Maputo.

"In this establishment we found that the operations work properly, billing is done through a system of cash registers that verify all sales and makes the subsequent calculations for the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT)" said Lurdes Banze to journalists at the end of the visit.

He acknowledged, however, that on the one hand there remain economic agents who have not complied with the obligation to issue invoices, and on the other, citizens who do not demand the invoice.

He explained that the bill guarantees the citizen's contribution to the state coffers and provides security in the operation.

"There has to be complementarity between the obligation on the part of the economic agent to issue the invoice or equivalent and the demand on the part of the citizen," he argued.