MINISTRY of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary for Administration Maambo Hamaundu has clarified that no new mandatory levy has been introduced for business owners. Recently, some members of the public have expressed concern that government has without any awareness but through the Lusaka City Council introduced a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses called the health permit pegged at K1,500. But in an interview, Tuesday, Hamaundu insisted that no new regulation had been introduced but that what people were witnessing was enforcement of an already existing law. “There is nothing new that has been introduced, there is no new law, no new regulation, no new fee that has been introduced. Everything the council is collecting now...