Single Window System for Lesotho

The recently launched Lesotho Revenue Authority-Business Partnership Forum (LRA-BPF) has identified a Single Window System for Lesotho as one of its priorities for 2014. “The LRA-BPF was established to discuss issues and find solutions to facilitating trade to the country. At a recent workshop involving all the border stakeholders it decided on the establishment of a single window system by the end of 2014,” said Hilary Woelk, chairman of the LRA-BPF. A single window system allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardised information and documents with a single entry point to fulfil all import, export, and transitrelated regulatory requirements. He told FTW this move would increase trade to the country as it would speed up the entry and exit process. “Another initiative we are launching is an education and awareness programme on the benefits of paying taxes.”