ZAMBIA Revenue Authority (ZRA) Board Chairperson Caleb Fundanga says the country is far from becoming a cashless economy. In an interview, Dr Fundanga said globally, only Sweden had gotten closer to becoming a cashless economy. “I’m telling you that globally, only Sweden is close to that. I don’t know the estimation, (how long it will take) because we are far (away). I mean how many people have visa cards in this country? We know that a lot of people prefer [to] have mobile money than to use a visa card because mobile money transactions are not captured. So, the short of it is that I don’t know but we are working towards that. You know very well that to go...

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