MINISTER of Home Affairs and Internal Security Jack Mwiimbu has extended the submission of annual returns for societies to July 2022 and waived off the K6,000 penalty slapped on them for failing to remit their 2021 and 2022 returns. At a media briefing, Friday, Mwiimbu said most societies failed to meet their obligations due to the migration of the registrar of society’s services onto the government service and payment gateway as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. “I have noted with great concern that despite the rules stipulating in the act on submission of annual returns, most of the registered societies failed to submit their 2021/ 2022 annual returns during the statutory period whose deadline was 31st March 2022. Out of...

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