The Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) is scheduled to introduce Electronic Taxation (e-tax) by December 2020, as it plays catch up to the rest of its peers in the Southern African region.

With its inability to collect required revenue thresholds over the past two years, coupled with uncontrollable collection costs, the organization’s manual and outdated systems have often been called into question.

LRA wants all client- facing services currently offered manually to be available on-line, as part of the government’s initiative to strengthen its tax administration systems.

Part of the wider Lesotho Tax Modernization Project (LTMP), e-tax seeks to slash down compliance costs incurred by taxpayers, by giving them the convenience to access LRA services from anywhere and anytime where there is internet coverage.