Funds amounting to K1.2 billion—a figure enough to support 30 constituencies at the present package of K40 million, in constituency development fund (CDF)—may as well have miraculously disappeared in government coffers as officials from the Ministry of Finance have failed to explain how they were spent. Government, last year, introduced carbon tax levies which it […]
Minister of Energy, Natural Resources and Mining Binton Kutsaira has said newly introduced Carbon Tax is part of Malawi’s contributions to the fight against climate change and its effects, therefore, people should not be worried. The Minister was speaking Friday to Malawian journalists in Madrid, Spain ahead of United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference. The conference, […]
An independent member of parliament for Karonga Central, Frank Mwenefumbo, has proposed that Malawi should consider introducing a carbon tax. “I would like to propose that there must be an imposition of carbon tax,” Mwenefumbo told parliament. “If you go to our neighbouring countries and when you are driving, you are asked to pay something […]