By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO –
ZAMBIA Revenue Authority (ZRA) commissioner general Berlin Msiska has said the authority is modernising revenue administration to improve compliance with tax, customs and trade laws.
Mr Msiska said the authority was moving with time in its efforts to ease the cost of tax compliance and administration.
He was speaking when ZRA made a donation of an assortment of goods worth K18,000 to Matero After Care Centre on the commemoration of the authority’s 20 years in existence.
He said ZRA previously introduced tax online and asycuda world which allows exporters and traders to make payments online, in an effort to make compliance easier and clearing easier.
Mr Msiska said this would enable tax payers also access systems from anywhere in the world which would improve administrative efficacy by allowing electronic submission of documents.
Meanwhile, Mr Msiska said it was worrying that there was a breakdown in African cultural values of looking after the aged and respecting them.
He said if various family units took the aged seriously they would not be as many old people who needing to be looked after at places like Matero home for the aged.
