HOW BERLIN MSISKA, ZRA COMMISSIONER GENERAL DUPED CHIKWANDA AND SECRETLY WROTE OFF K16 BILLION TAX LIABILITIES OF THE POST NEWSPAPER - BY PROUD AUSHI MUSAMBA MUMBA Berlin Msiska, the Commissioner General of the Zambia Revenue Authority in July last year wrote off a staggering debt owned by the Newspaper to the tune of K16 billion. According to the ZRA, the Commissioner General has no right to write off tax liabilities at all. HOW DID BERLIN FIND HIMSELF IN SUCH A SITUATION? Before he was fired, Berlin Msiska was very soft on the Post Newspaper especially that they had a close relationship with the MMD Government under President Mwanawasa. As a result, the Post rarely paid any form of tax including PAYE. Hence tax liabilities accumulated to K23 billion by 2008. When RB became president, he set ZRA on them and merely saved due to favours from a PF official Dr. Ngosa Simbiakula who was then with the revenues tribunal compounded by rigorous judicial review. The tax liabilities of the Post acrued when Msiska was Commissioner General both during the Mwanawasa and Sata regimes respectively. The question one is attempted to ask is, what is the relationship between Msiska and Mmembe? We know he was with Wynter Kabimba in the same class at Kafue Boys. We also know that he fired over ten competent people like Sigende and replaced them with Wynters stooges. What favours did he get from Mmembe after writing off K16 billion tax liabilities? ACC should move in and arrest Msiska. Mmembe is a pathalogical hypocrite who does not believe in neither paying tax nor paying back debt. After a mere visit by ZRA, he manged to pay K1.6 million in two instalments yesterday. Where has he been all along? His house was heavily mortgaged, his airline business was in debt, and he bought his trucks through debt. Does Mmembe really own anything apart from the money he made from Zambian Airways and put it in his daughters account abroad? Let Mmembe be man enough and just pay both debt and tax.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:20:37 +0000
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