RME71US - Research Methods on Methodology - IUM

Assignment Task

Statement

The number of people implicated in the massive fraudulent tax refund scam has increased from 409, as reported in July 2022, to 921 while the amount involved has escalated from N$36 million to an astronomical N$136 million. The Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) yesterday indicated these figures are applicable as of 10 January 2023 for the colossal fraudulent scheme uncovered in March last year that involved refunds being paid to underserving recipients through the illegal manipulation of the tax system.

In an update provided yesterday, the tax collection agency stated the ongoing investigation has implicated taxpayers who are employees of 56 institutions, ranging from private companies, government entities as well as public institutions. To date, 50 criminal cases have been lodged with the Namibian Police and noted that further action will follow as determined by law enforcement officials.

As the investigations continue, we remain steadfast in carrying out our mandate of enforcing the revenue and customs laws and investigate any detected tax fraud cases, Ndorokaze stated. New Era reported that employees accused of defrauding NamRA are facing the full wrath of the law as the agency commenced with directly deducting the ill-gotten gains from their monthly salaries, without consent or a court order.

This publication has established that NamRA is now collecting monies from several employees implicated in the multi-million dollar tax refund scam, chief amongst them Standard Bank employees. For the past few months, the implicated taxpayers have faced huge deductions from their regular salaries, to the extent many are unable to service existing financial obligations, including home and car loans. Responding to questions from this publication last week, Ndorokaze said the long arm of the law has finally caught up with those who fraudulently claimed the tax refunds.

Questions

1. Formulate the Research topic from the statement

2. Outline a brief background to the study. 

3. Highlight Statement of the problem. 

4. Indicate three research questions.

5. Elaborate on the Significance of the study. 

6. What should be the limitations of the study? 

7. Define a review of literature in research process and use examples from the assignment statement ? 

8. Describe and discuss five (5) reasons why literature review is important in the research process

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