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Vol.8 No.215 Monday, December 03, 2018.Cdr The French Version Inside AAddvveerrttiizzee ew Here For N TDRULYa INDwEPENDnENT VOL. 8 NO. 215 MONDAY, DECEMBER 03, 2018 PRICE LD$40.00 LLooww RRaattee a g Kuwaitis to Pe11 a g Pe5 ‘You on Associate Justice Kabineh Ja'neh your own’ -S/Court leaves Justice Ja’neh hanging MONDAY DECEMBER 03 2018 w w w .t henewdawnliberia.com N E W D A W N 2 negotiating and making softer payment terms,” Chamanda Zimra targets said.“The authority continues to use the garnish facility as a last resort where the debt recovery section would have $4,3bn revenue failed having followed all the h e Z i m b a b w e sector basis it is now as high lowest and worst.”Chimanda and $275,016 million, procedures.” Revenue Authority as 80% for large corporates,” also said Zimra was owed $4,5 respectively. He said some parastatals T(Zimra) is targeting he said. b i l l i o n b y c o m p a n i e s , To s t r e n g t h e n d e b t and city councils who owed to collect $4,3 billion in gross “While these figures parastatals and councils, recovery efforts, Chimanda the authority were also owed revenue by year-end, up 8% pertain to the formal and tax- dating back to before 2015. said the domestic taxes by government.As such, compared to what was registered taxpayers, the Private corporates owe the department had set up a Zimra was putting forward a achieved in 2017, an official case of the informal sector is authority $3,62 billion, fully-fledged debt recovery proposal for debt set-off with has said. not measured. including penalties and section focusing solely on the government wherein Last year, the actual gross “ U n d o u b t e d l y, t a x interest, as at October 31, debt recoveries. Treasury evens out the revenue collections totalled compliance levels in the 2018 while parastatals and The authority is also amounts due to parastatals by $ 3 , 9 7 8 b i l l i o n , w h i c h informal sector are the councils owe $604,587 million carrying out voluntary paying taxes.“Zimra has surpassed the target of $3,4 compliance campaigns to applied this in order to avoid billion by $350 million. motivate and sensitise further deterioration of debt. Zimra head of corporate taxpayers so as to increase Suppliers of those parastatals communications Francis voluntary compliance. whose tax clearance would C h i m a n d a t o l d “For some taxpayers who have been withheld will Standardbusiness that the are distressed due to the withhold 10% tax and pay it taxman had collected $4,146 current adverse economic directly to Zimra,” Chamanda billion over 10 months ending environment, the authority is added. Reuters October 31, 2018. This was 18% above target.“Our year-end target Mnangagwa launches for gross revenue collection is $4,3 billion,” Chimanda said. He, however, lamented the construction of China-funded current tax compliance imbabwe’s President levels, which he said were E m m e r s o n very low at 50% on average. Mnangagwa on Friday “ T h e c u r r e n t t a x Z launched the construction of a compliance level is a matter new parliament, which is to be Members of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS of concern as it is barely at financed by the Chinese. distribute aid on World AIDS Day at the Kuchingoro 50% on average, while on Officials say the current colonial-era parliamentary building in the city centre is too small to accommodate Kenya swamped lawmakers. Reportedly built t o a c c o m m o d a t e 1 0 0 to build a new parliament”, lawmakers, the current without giving a figure. with settlement s t r u c t u r e i s u s e d b y The Chinese have also Z i m b a b w e ’ s 3 5 0 he Office of the Sh101.3 billion as of May this compensation cases were filed p l e d g e d t o c o n s t r u c t against the Nairobi AG’s office parliamentarians. parliaments for the Republic Attorney-General has year. T h e n e w 6 5 0 - s e a t e r been receiving an The compensation consists in 2013 alone. Some 1,579 of Congo and Gabon in Central T parliament is also part of plans Africa. cases were filed the following a v e r a g e o f 1 , 7 0 0 of awards to victims of torture g ove rn me n t’s p l a n s to compensation cases annually and for business litigants. year, 1,667 in 2015, some Mnangagwa took over from 1,733 in 2016 and 1,861 in establish a new smart city. long-time ruler Robert Mugabe for the last six years, reports “There is an ongoing “Other facilities like banks, indicate. exercise to obtain data of 2017. who was ousted by the military Torture hotels will be built around this in November 2017. This revelation comes as pending judgments and awards place,” Mnangagwa said court awards against the f r o m S t a t e m i n i s t r i e s , When compiling the data He has vowed to revive this month, the Nairobi office adding that a “modern, smart Zimbabwe’s economy that has government have been on the departments and agencies,” city” was planned. increase, with information the AG’s office said in response of the AG had received 2,740 been in ruins for nearly two cases.“It is evident that the Gift from China decades.China has funded and that pending claims lodged at to questions sent to it by the The imposing circular the AG’s office stood at Sunday Nation.Some 1,293 number of cases keeps provided loans for many increasing year after year. This complex will be built over 32 infrastructure projects across data is only for the Nairobi months by the Shanghai Africa in recent years, ranging office. It excludes new cases Construction group at Mount from roads and power plants being received at our regional Hampden, 18 kilometres (11 to sports stadiums and offices in Mombasa, Malindi, miles) north-west of Harare, government institutions. Kisumu, Kisii, Eldoret, Nakuru, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting C r i t i c s s a y C h i n a ’s Nyeri, Embu and Meru,” AG Corporation reported. increasing sway over the Paul Kariuki Kihara’s office Mnangagwa said at the c o n t i n e n t u n d e r m i n e s said. ceremony that China had democracy and sovereignty. Besides survivors of the provided a “grant, not a loan, AFP Nyayo House torture, the other major groups suing the 1980s and civil servants say they were duped into government are victims of r e t r e n c h e d d u r i n g t h e signing unfair agreements. t o r t u r e , v i o l a t i o n s o f S t r u c t u r a l A d j u s t m e n t Mwakenya and the 2007/08 fundamental rights, unlawful Programmes period. post-election violence victims dismissals by members of the Members of the latter group also want to be paid. Air Force following the 1982 say they were dismissed from The AG’s office says most abortive coup, political public service unfairly. survivors of the Nyayo House detainees, persons arrested Other claimants are civil torture chambers have had and tortured on suspicion of servants who left under the their compensation settled by wooden judge on graph on table background being members of the voluntary retirement scheme. the Ministry of Interior and F e b r u a r y E i g h t e e n Payment Coordination of National Revolutionary Army in the late The former public officers Government.Reuters MONDAY 2018 w w w .t henewdawnliberia.com N E W D A W N 3 DECEMBER 03 Commentary By Joschka Fischer The LEC against itself Angela Merkel’s Long Goodbye SERVICES PROVIDED BY the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) to the public leave much to be desired despite huge investment in that entity. Current situation at that entity is With the chancellor's announced retirement, Germany, together with characterized by managerial in-fighting at the detriment of customers. As the LEC continues to raise fist against itself, the rest of Europe, is heading into a new period of uncertainty. A full- business entities, residential homes, ordinary Liberians and scale reorganization of the post-war German party system is likely, the general public are left along with little or no services at as are fundamental questions about the country's international role. all. NEWS THAT ESB International, the private company ERLIN – With Angela Merkel having holding seats in the Bundestag, this arrangement contracted by the Government of Liberia to manage the LEC announced that she will step down as no longer works as well as it once did. leader of the Christian Democratic Union is alleging the existence of an rogue element within the B (CDU) and not seek reelection as chancellor In the years preceding Merkel’s first election as corporation that is deliberately, and in many cases bypassing when her current term ends in 2021, Germany is chancellor in 2005, Germany had been governed control procedures and necessary organizational changes is approaching a watershed moment.
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