LRA New Tax Administration System (ELITAS)

The Liberia Revenue Authority under the leadership of the Commissioner General (Thomas Doe Nah) has completed the development of a local tax administration system termed ELITAS. This system is going to replace the global tax administration system called SIGTAS (System Integrated Tax Administration System). The Newly developed sytem will be used for all revenue collection at the Liberia Revenue Authority excluding (Custom Duties) which will be collected through ASYCUDA. The System has already been implemented in the Medium Tax Section (applicable to all Medium Tax payers) and has been working pretty fine. The LRA in partnership with the Liberia Institute of Tax Practioner (LITP) has begun certificating institute member through their licencing scheme to enable only license tax practitioner to file in the new system. Our Chairman/CEO, Mr. G. Darlington Dahn, I is a licensed tax practitioner with over 14 years of experience in Tax Adminsitration (LRA) and Tax Advisor (Private Auditing Firms) and is committed to ensuring compliance with the tax adminsitration system. For consulting, Advisory and Training in the use of the new Tax Administration System, you can contact him on 0886433289 / 0776433289 or Whatsapp +231777287389 or by email at dahn.darlington@gmail.com For link to the new tax adminstrtion system, visit: https://elitas.lra.gov.lr:8282/tax/ To visit the LRA website for updates, click: https://revenue.lra.gov.lr/

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