Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) and Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in joint crackdown on suspected tax evasion are now pursuing business person Imran Malida after the customs body seized property and sealed off offices belonging to motor vehicle supplying company, Mike Appel and Gatto Limited, over the company’s failure to remit about K1.2 billion in taxes. […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) on Monday managed to evade a High Court order Mike Appel and Gatto Limited had obtained, stopping the tax-collector from sealing its offices over K1.2 billion unpaid taxes. MRA sealed the offices of Mike Appel and Gatto Limited in Blantyre and Lilongwe and seized a number of cars in the […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has sealed the offices of Mike Appel and Gatto Limited in Blantyre and Lilongwe. The car dealer owes government over K1.2 billion in unpaid taxes. MRA has also seized a number of cars in the showroom. “We have sealed the offices of Mike Appel and Gatto Limited in Blantyre and […]
Shabir Gani, director of Victoria Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited has been reported to Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to investigate possible leads of corruption for his evasion of customs duty evasion totaling millions. Gani had applied to government during the Peoples Party administration for duty free status of importation of two commercial vehicles- a pick-up and a saloon. […]
Government has launched the Malawi Business Registration System, and the Collateral Registry, a development that will enable members of the public register their businesses and movable assets online. The official launch took place at the Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe where Vice President, Dr. Saulos Chilima, was guest of honour. In his keynote […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) says it is committed to moving with new improved ICT innovations to ensure and enhance revenue performance in the country. MRA Commissioner General Tom Malata said this ahead of this year’s International Customs Day, which is commemorated every year on January 26 under a given theme which is selected by World Customs […]
A 39 year-old man from Kameza village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Machinjiri on Tuesday committed suicide by shooting himself with pump gun at his house in Chigumula, Blantyre. Limbe Police identified the deceased as Lumbani Namba, who was working with the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA). He left a suicide note of which the law enforcers declined […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Technical Entrepreneurial and Vocation Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) mandating MRA to start collecting Tevet Levy. The Authority will start collecting Tevet levy from November 1 2015. The two parties signed the MoU at Msokho House in Blantyre on Tuesday. Tevet levy requires employers, […]
The leadership instability and power wrangles that dogged the country’s tax collecting authority, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) which have had three Commissioner Generals in less than three years, seems to be over and put to rest as Accountant and Tax analyst Tom Malata has finally taken over the reigns as the new boss after fruitfully […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has arrested eight Value Added Tax (VAT) business operators for non-issuance of and failure to retain fiscal receipts. The offences are contrary to Section 46 of the VAT Act (Cap. 42:01) and regulation 28 (2) of the Value Added Tax Electronic Fiscal Devices Regulations, 2015, respectively. The arrested eight Blantyre […]
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima was laid to rest Monday in his village south of the capital, following a funeral where President Lazarus Chakwera called for an independent probe into his death in a plane crash. Chilima and nine other people died in the plane crash last week in Malawi’s northern region of Mzimba. The […]
Beleaguered former Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Commissioner for Exports, Shadrec Namalomba, is set to go back to MRA where he will be Deputy Commissioner General, Nyasa Times can reveal. Namalomba was sacked by the MRA board for aiding controversial politician and DPP heavyweight Noel Masangwi smuggle banned round wood to China worth millions of kwachas. […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has asked consumers to develop a spirit of demanding fiscal receipts for goods bought or services rendered from Value Added Tax (VAT) business operators for their VAT to be recorded and accounted for. By demanding fiscal receipts or invoice, according to MRA Acting Commissioner General Roza Mbilizi, VAT operators will […]
The infighting which rocked public tax collector, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) between director general Ralph Kamoto and deputy Roza Mbilizi has ended with Mbilizi the winner in her bid to oust Kamoto and she is now acting director general. Earlier, Nyasa Times reported that Tom Makina has been pencilled in to take over as head of […]
Commissioner General of Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Ralph Kamoto has been replaced by Tom Malata,formerly Chief Executive for Premium TAMA Tobacco Limited and not Steward Malata as earlier reported. Kamoto has been deployed to Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) as its boss. Nyasa Times regret the error of Steward Malata instead of Tom Malata. Malatacomes […]
The tax collector, Malawi Revenue of Authority (MRA) collected K52.14 billion in the month of July, beating the set target of K52.04 billion by almost K100 million. According to a published Revenue Performance report, the July collection represents a revenue growth of 27 percent compared to the same month last fiscal year. MRA has since […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gurus are pressurizing President Peter Mutharika to remove Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Commissioner General Ralphael Kamoto and replace him with former Commissioner General now High Court Judge Lloyd Muhara. Impeccable sources confided to Nyasa Times that beleaguered businessman and DPP MP Noel Masangwi is the one who is in the fore […]
