The Finance Minister says the slowdown in economic activity calls for domestic resource mobilisation. Calle Schlettwein singles out enhanced revenue collection and tax administrative reforms as critical to financing Namibia’s development agenda. He stresses that the results-based performance of the staff is critical to achieving and surpassing the budgeted revenue collection targets. The minister says this is possible only if the employees abandon the business-as-usual approach, become increasingly pro-active, innovative and visible in revenue collection and the provision of taxpayer services. Schlettwein demands from Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise officials to conduct targeted field operations to ensure that all companies are registered for tax purposes. He wants the officials to ensure that all those that should pay tax do so and that his officials monitor progress on a weekly basis. He instructed the officials to verify third party information to eliminate opportunities for tax avoidance and tax evasion, while strengthening tax assessment activities. Schlettwein ordered his staff to implement the new tax proposals that were approved, like the carbon dioxide emission tax and the export levies. He gave the instructions when he addressed his staff in Windhoek on Friday.