Vehicle tracking is being used by the authorities in East Africa. Many vehicles entering East Africa Community are meant for re-export, but often are sold within the local economy and end up on local roads.
This means that the people importing the cars are not paying import duty as they are put down as going straight out to other countries nearby.
This is a great way of escaping paying extra tax and therefore lowering tax. The problem is the government of these countries is losing out on badly needed import duty.
To put an end to this they are starting to put vehicle tracking on all vehicles entering the country for re-export. If they then end up driving around the local area they will be tracked down.
Many East African countries see this as a solution to a problem that has concerned them for some time now.
They are obviously losing a lot of money to this particular type of tax dodging to make it worthwhile fitting tracking systems to each of the suspect cars and vans.
It seems that vehicle tracking is a great way to curb all sorts of crimes, not just the obvious world trade in stolen cars.
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