Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Zambian government to increase taxes on its mines


New measures to boost tax collection from the mining sector have been announced this week by Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda. The implementation of the new system is surely in response to global media reports that the country is losing billions of dollars of revenue from tax evasion which could be mainly traced to multinational mining companies. The minister said there was need to calculate the taxing based on the true production and export data of minerals generated.

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