Continued from yesterday… APART from increasing its tax revenue base, ZRA also needs to root out corruption among its officers. There are certain times when big businesses are not registered for the right types of taxes because the officers under that jurisdiction have a special understanding with the business owners. Commissioner General Dingani Banda is crying at the top, that only 0.1 per cent of the businesses are covering 80 per cent of the total revenue; yet his officers below are deliberately turning a blind eye on business revenue that is supposed to be taxed. There is a problem here, and this is quite common especially in Lusaka. ZRA officers outside Lusaka and those within the Capital City operate as...

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