Africa-Press – Angola. The General Tax Administration (AGT) is benefiting from Tech-Gest’ technology, a service that uses updated images from the Angolan Satellite (Angosat-2), to collect Property Tax (IP), through the link https:/ /ip.minfin.gov.ao/ip.
Through this link, the user can register, using the NIF or their data from the taxpayer portal. After this step, the citizen must select the option to register property and urban building, in the declarant’s identification and select as owner, according to a press release this Monday.
The tool is then available in the location tab, and you need to choose the province, municipality, commune or district. Then you must navigate the map, selecting the red polygon that represents your residence.
For payment, taxpayers can make an appointment via the Taxpayer Portal or the AGT website for online or in-person assistance, as well as request support from the Taxpayer Support Center, to facilitate the fulfillment of this task. It can also be paid at the institution’s tax offices or offices.
The voluntary payment of IP for the year 2023 began on the 1st of January last and ends on the 31st of this month, throughout the national territory.
The IP rate is 0.5 percent on the amount of asset value that exceeds five million (5,000,000) kwanzas. For buildings that are rented, the effective rate of 15 percent of the total rent applies.
Property Tax (IP) is levied on the asset value or income of urban and rural buildings, as well as on free or onerous transfers of real estate, regardless of the title under which such transfers are carried out.
On the other hand, Tech-gest technology, which is being used by AGT, is a service that uses updated satellite images, with high resolution for infrastructure monitoring, asset management, change detection and mapping of use. and land occupation.
In addition to this tool, Angosat-2 also made available the ‘Tech-ecology’ technology, which is a solution that uses satellite radar images, allowing the detection, monitoring and warning of the occurrence of possible oil spills in the national offshore.
The same package also includes ‘Tech-agro’, a service aimed at farmers, which allows analyzing the state of agricultural fields by monitoring the development of vegetation, using the Normalized Difference Index (NDVI) and biophysical parameters (LAI , Fcover, FAPAR).
According to the National Space Program Management Office (GGPEN), among the benefits of the aforementioned services, the optimization in the use of resources, the added value in the provision of services, payment in national currency, reduction of operational costs and increased productivity.
With Tech-gest, Tech-ecologia and Tech-agro, GGPEN, supervised by the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication (MINTTICS), has the vision of supporting sustainable development through aerospace technologies, contributing to the positioning of Angola as one of the leaders in the space sector in Africa.
Launched into orbit on October 12, 2022, from the Baikonur aerospace station, in Kazakhstan, the Angolan satellite – Angosat-2 has a transmission capacity seven times greater than that of ANGOSAT-1, which had 16 retransmitters in Band C and six in the KU Band.
With a 15-year useful life, ANGOPST-2 also has six “transponders” in the C Band, 24 in the KU Band and, as a new feature, a retransmitter in the KA Band.
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