ZAMBIA Revenue Authority (ZRA) Board Chairperson Dr Caleb Fundanga says the authority wants to work towards ensuring that tax is captured even on mobile money transactions for businesses, the way it is with bank accounts. In an interview, Dr Fundanga observed that most businesses opted for mobile money transactions for payments as opposed to bank cards for fear of tax deductions. “I know that there are so many ways by which people are trying to avoid payment of taxation. If you go to some of these like…let’s give just as an example, let’s give you a hardware shop, if you go to them, most of them don’t want to use the Visa card to swipe. They will tell you to...

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