World Customs Organisation (WCO) has commended the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) for promoting integrity as a corporate priority following Commissioner General, John Biziwick’s drive to re-energize and embed integrity within the tax collecting body. A statement from MRA says this follows a virtual meeting that WCO representatives had with Biziwick on September 7, 2020 to […]
Feathers plucked, frisking for wrongdoing are the order of each second and minute at MRA headquarters as the new sheriff is now in town. Nyasa Times can reveal that since his arrival on Monday this week abusers and looters are trembling in fear of unforeseen consequences for their actions taken for the past six years. […]
President Lazarus Chakwera in his bid to clear the rubble that has left the country in ruins by the previous regime, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) commissioner-general Tom Malata and his deputy Roza Mbilizi have been replaced, with former boss John Biziwick returning to head the revenue authority. Biziwick, who was hired by the administration of […]
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has criticised President Peter Mutharika dismissing innocent public servants for no crime other than the fact that they served in his predecessor’s government which raise serious human rights implications and threatens the integrity of the public service. The taxpayer-funded Commission said in a media statement signed by its chairperson Sophie […]
A study conducted by one of the country’s business persons and also a civil rights campaigner Rafiq Hajat on Malawi Revenue Authority’s (MRA) plans to introduce Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs) to compliment its VAT collection exercise by 30th June, has indicated that the plan has been done in hurry. The study calls upon the MRA to […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) will on January 31, 2014 join the rest of the world in commemorating the International Customs Day (ICD). This years’ commemoration, under the theme ‘Communication: sharing information for better cooperation’, will be held at Sunbird Mount Soche in Blantyre. According to the press release signed by MRA’s Commissioner General, John Biziwick, […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Commissioner General John Biziwick is under fire for irregular recruitment of some senior staff and the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) has been asked to probe the matter. A letter from concerned employees to ACB and copied to various media houses said Biziwick single-handedly picked Henry Ngutwa as Director of Tax Investigation without […]
All is not well at Malawi’s tax collecting body where the Commissioner General John Biziwick is under fire for his management style and recruitment of ‘close’ relations. Since the arrival of Biziwick soon after the change of government in April last year, he has managed to bloat the number of managers to a whooping 85, […]