The Ministry of Finance has extended the 95 percent tax fine exemption program until the end of this fiscal year. 

The ministry’s revenue and customs department said that companies that do not clear their accounts with the Ministry by the end of this fiscal will be prosecuted.

General director of revenue at the Ministry of Finance said that in the first nine months of the fiscal year 2.7 billion Afghanis in tax fines was written off but that nearly 10 billion Afghanis has been collected after companies paid their accounts. 

In this episode host Zarmina Mohammadi discusses the topic with Abdul Habib Zadran General director of revenue at the Ministry of Finance.

Mohammadi also discusses the issue of smuggling of dollars from Kabul to Herat province with Samim Sarem an economist. 

In addition, Mohammadi discusses the move to include apples from Maidan Wardak into the security forces food list with Binyamin Wardak Chief of the Social Council of Maidan Wardak Province.