Thursday, July 30, 2009

SIGTAS training update Istanbul


Hello dear all,


we are in day 4th of training, we had an overview of methodology for the implementation of project, then we had an overview of sigtas modules "visual" and on thursday we have started our practical works with tax roll module for sigtas. i found sigtas totally comprehensive and in next few days we ll go further detailed with taxroll module. we are trying to catchup all but same time lots of questions raises to be discused or to be resolved according to afghan income tax law, what we are doing now.

just keep visiting our blog for further development regading the training for costumization of sigtas.

regards,

Dr. Ajmal Behzad

SIGTAS project manager

SIGTAS Presentation to IT Staff from the Provinces

The SIGTAS presentation to the IT staff from the provinces was held on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 at 11am at Khayber Hall at the Ministry of Finance. There were about 40 attendees. This presentation was done as part of the IT workshop organised by the Information Communication & Technology (ICT) department in the Ministry of Finance. I presented and Saifullah Paktin translated. The presentation covered questions such as "What is SIGTAS?", "Who Developed it", "Who it's Funded By", "Countries of Implementation", "Implementation Sites", "Implementation Schedule" and "SIGTAS Team Members", the IT staff were then shown the Senegalise version of SIGTAS.

Questions and comments raised by members of the IT staff from the provinces included:
Will SIGTAS be able to capture tax registration of taxpayers currently not in the TIN database?
What is the TIN database i have heard about?
We don't have internet connection in some provinces, so how will we connect?
The Senegal version of SIGTAS is not very practical for Afghanistan.

Do any other European countries or the USA use SIGTAS?
Who will train managers and staff in the provinces in the use of SIGTAS?

It was an excellent opportunity to inform the IT staff from the provinces the new system that was 'coming their way'.

Jaque


Sunday, July 26, 2009

Istanbul Trip


Hello every body,

I am now in Istanbul the city of youngs.

The SIGTAS BAs, me "Project manager" and International advisors are now in Istanbul. we had a nice trip byu Safi Airways from Kabul to Dubai "a nice and calm trip with lots of fun" i really enjoy that one. we arrives 8:30 pm of AF time in Dubai terminal 1th. we had lots of fun in duty free shops, late night 2:40 pm of Dubai time we left for Turkish air line a big air craft. our trip to Istanbul lasts about 4 and half hour, but totally all team didnt sleep well at air craft. we arrived about 7:00 am Istanbul time at the ataturk airport. then we had a minibus to our residance hotel "CRYSTAL" a nice hotel of 4 star. Saturday we were so sleepless we decided to sleep well and we had sleep after breakfast at 9:30 am in the hotel until about 4 pm, then we went to sight seeing. we went to isteqlal street a street full of people. One thing wonder me that Istanbul is the city of all young age people. to tell you the fact it's all diffrent for me. but totally we had fun.To day Sunday we went to Blue Mosque very nice place. totally Istanbul is the city where needs to be saw.To night we are going to meet our trainers from Sogema and tomorrow 26th July we are going to start our trianing session. totally i think we are ready for training as we had time to look around.so dear all,keep watching our weblog to share more about our training as this week i am going to update you about our training developments.

regards, Dr Ajmal Behzad

SIGTAS Team in Istanbul

Hello every body,

The SIGTAS BAs, me "Project manager" and International advisors are now in Istanbul. we had a nice trip byu Safi Airways from Kabul to Dubai "a nice and calm trip with lots of fun" i really enjoy that one. we arrives 8:30 pm of AF time in Dubai terminal 1th. we had lots of fun in duty free shops, late night 2:40 pm of Dubai time we left for Turkish air line a big air craft. our trip to Istanbul lasts about 4 and half hour, but totally all team didnt sleep well at air craft. we arrived about 7:00 am Istanbul time at the ataturk airport. then we had a minibus to our residance hotel "CRYSTAL" a nice hotel of 4 star. Saturday we were so sleepless we decided to sleep well and we had sleep after breakfast at 9:30 am in the hotel until about 4 pm, then we went to sight seeing. we went to isteqlal street a street full of people. One thing wonder me that Istanbul is the city of all young age people. to tell you the fact it's all diffrent for me. but totally we had fun.
To day Sunday we went to Blue Mosque very nice place. totally Istanbul is the city where needs to be saw.
To night we are going to meet our trainers from Sogema and tomorrow 26th July we are going to start our trianing session. totally i think we are ready for training as we had time to look around.
so dear all,
keep watching our weblog to share more about our training as this week i am going to update you about our training developments.

regards, Dr Ajmal Behzad

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

SIGTAS Technical Team

Salam!
I am the IT Advisor on the SIGTAS project working with the ARD SIGTAS technical team. The SIGTAS technical team is comprised of 4 positions (2 DBAs and 2 Developers), one position yet to be filled. Team members are Masooma Haidari, Saifullah Patkin and Majeeb Khan. Masooma and Saifullah have undertaken Oracle Database Administration and Developer courses in India and achieved OCP in Oracle Database Administration 11g.
The technical team will also be leaving for Turkey but not at the same time as their BA friends. The SIGTAS technical training will commence on the 17th of August 2009 and finish the same time as the BA training on the 4th of September 2009.

Jaque

داقتصادی شنونکو لومړني ښوو نيز مرکز ترکیه استانبول


داقتصادی شنونکو لومړني ښوو نيز مرکز ترکیه استانبول, دغه ټريننګ به د ترکي په استانبول ښارکي چي د دروان عيسويي کال د جولاي په ٢٧ پيليږي او ښايي چي ٦ اووني وخت وونيسي دکاناډايي متخصصینو له خو ترسره کيږي
ديوه روښانه راتلونکي په هيله
سيف الله پکتين

My first trip to Istanbul

Dear all,
I am sure you all will get excited hearing about Istanbul, the same is here with me and another matter which makes me more excited is flying by aircraft, yeh do not wonder as it's my first time and my first experiance of traveling by airplane. i am sure well learn lots of stuff regarding the implementation of our Project which is the main goal of us traveling to Istanbul. i wish we all learn alot and do our best to better implement the project. so dear all we ll be in touch through our weblog and will share lots of other stuff with you all in the next future.

Regards,
Dr. Ajmal Behzad
SIGTAS project manager
cell:+93779482390

Afghanistan Revenue Department


Afghanistan Revenue Department

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Sigtas Training in Turkey



The Sigtas Business Analysis and Project Management team will be departing to Turkey on Friday 24 July to start with the first 6 weeks of training in Istanbul. Excitement and expectations are very high for this opportunity and everybody is very keen to get going.

Istanbul here we come!

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سیگتاس افغانستان(SIGTAS Afghanistan)

سیګتاس يو انګليسي نوم دی چي مانا يي (دمالياتو د راټولولو د تنظیم معياري سیستم ) دی چي د کاناډايانو له خوا جوړسوي او دافغانستان سره په (نه لسو ١٩) نو رو هيوادونو کي په کار اچول شوي دي او ښي پايلي يي نوموړو هيوادونو ته دمالياتو په را ټولولو ورکړي دي

افغانستان شلم هیواد دی چی ددی پوره او مکمل سيستم څخه بر خورداره کيږي لکه چي د نوم څخه يي مالوميږي دغه مالياتي سيستم به دافغانستان دمالی سیستم سره زیاته مرسته وکړي تر څو افغانستان و کولای شی چی دخپلو مالياتو په راټولولو سره خپل اقتصاد په خپلو پښو ودروي

د نهو مياشتو راهيسي پدي مالياتي سيستم کار روان دي تر څو تکميل او ګټي اخيستني ته چمتو شي
په دغه پروژه باندي دري خارجي مشاورين اونه ٩ کورني غړي په شمول دي دپروژی کورنی آمرکارکوی چي په دوو برخو ويشل کيږي

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سیگتاس یا اداره تنظیم سیستم جامع مالیات

اداره تنظیم سیستم جامع مالیات که جدیداً بمنظور تنظیم هر چه بهتر امور مالیات در ساختار ریاست عواید تشکیل گردیده در نظر دارد تا سیستم سافت ویر کمپیوتری جامع را بمنظور ثبت و راجستر تمامی مالیه دهندگان به تمامی مشخصات آنها در این اداره به معرض اجرا درآورد، با تطبیق این پروژه میتوان که سطح عواید کشور را به طور بیسابقه یی بالابرد و از تداخلات و خلاهای کاری که در جریان ثبت و طی مراحل تادیات مالیاتی مودیان صورت میگرفت جلوگیری نمود।از جمله اهداف این پروژه :
بالا بردن سطح عواید در کشور
ایجاد یک سیستم کمپیوتری واحد که پاسخ گوی تمامی نیازمندی های مودیان باشد
جلوگیری از فساد و رشوه
تحت اثر آوردن تمامی معلومات مربوط به مودیان در زیر یک چتر


علاوتاً با افزود که اعضای تیم کاری این پروژه قسماً با تقرر بنده (داکتر اجمل بهزاد) منحیث آمر پروژه سیگتاس تکمیل یافته ولی بآن هم ما فعلاً نیاز به استخدام یک نفر دیزاینر یا دیویلوپر داریم
معلومات بیشتر را در روز های آینده در مورد پیشرفت این پروژه فراموش نکنید

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Sigtas Project Overview

The Sigtas has now been in progress for about 9 months. During this time most of the activities around the project have been focussed on preparation and staffing. Almost US$1,000,000 has already been spent on requirements definition, scoping, hardware infrastructure, software and advisory services.

Follow this thread for more information.

Sigtas Team (almost) complete!


"The table is prepared for a new era.."

After a long recruitment process, the Sigtas team is now almost complete. We have four business analysts in place and although we lost one of our technical team members, we are in the process of recruiting a new technical team member to fill the vacancy. We are also pleased that Dr Ajmal Behzad has joined as the ARD project manager.