Inaugural CEO Forum
The Fiji Revenue & Customs Service held its inaugural CEO Forum with key industry leaders yesterday at the Ministry of Economy conference room.
The event which was attended by Executive leaders of 15 different companies, Statutory Bodies and Government, representing the Accounting, Construction, Real Estate and commercial companies.
Mr Das presented the 3 year strategic plan to Leaders which contextualized the Fiji plans against Global and Asia Pacific trends, highlighted the key strategic focus areas and outlined they key projects in the pipeline which would impact the Fijian economy in the next 12 – 36 months. “As an organization we are committed to modernize and reposition ourselves to deliver better if not world class tax payer services to all our customers.
We have restructured, we have renamed ourselves, we have specific strategic deliverables which we must deliver on time and we acknowledge we can only succeed in doing this through partnership,” emphasized Mr Das.
He also introduced the Draft Compliance Improvement Strategy for business input.
Highlighting seven risk sectors and how Revenue and Customs intended to treat the risks, in order to influence tax payer behavior.
“These are the facts as we see them, you will see some worrying trends emerging and we are here to dialogue so that we can all partner to treat the risks and grow the Fijian Economy” said Mr Das The CEO forum will be held on a quarterly basis with Executive Leaders.