As a way of improving efficiency in tax compliance and collection, TNM Mpamba Limited has partnered with Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) to enable electronic payment of taxes through the Mpamba platform. The partnership enables Mpamba subscribers who have MRA Payment Registration Numbers (PRN) to pay for their Domestic / Customs & Excise taxes through Mpamba. […]
The country’s graft-busting body Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has released its findings of investigations into the recruitment at the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) following complaints of unfair job offers in the process that were reported in April 2020, saying the process was fraudulent and has asked the tax –collecting body to replace 125 unqualified recruit. […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) yesterday detained seven cars belonging to former State House Chief of Staff, Peter Mukhitho suspected to be not properly cleared A statement signed by the tax collecting body spokesperson Steven Kapoloma said MRA searched Mukhitho’s residence following a tip. The seven vehicles include a Toyota Land Cruiser (VX8), a Range Rover, […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has rubbished reports in social media platforms that some of its vehicles, which were taken by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) operatives, were being dumped. MRA spokesperson Steve Kapoloma said an internal audit showed that all vehicles were on its fleet or with assigned officers. “No vehicle is missing. After we heard […]
Former president Peter Mutharika has denied instructing his personal bodyguard Norman Chisale for the controversial importation of K5 billion worth of cement allegedly using Mutharika duty-free status for sitting presidents. Chisale was arrested by Fiscal Police and faces fraud and money laundering charges as he is alleged to have used Mutharika’s taxpayer identification number to facilitate the […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has allayed concerns that a fire broke out at its head office Msokho House in Blantyre, saying there were only “a spark” from a power extension in one of the offices . “As per safety requirements, all employees had to evacuate when the alarm and siren were triggered,” said MRA […]
Government has on Tuesday appointed new board members for Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) and Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA). This is barely three weeks after President Lazarus Chakwera dissolved boards for over 60 parastatals. The appointed members are all professionals. In a statement signed by Chief Secretary to Government Zanga-Zanga Chikhosi, the appointments are with […]
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. […]
Questions have been raised for Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Limited on how they came to import 12000 bags of cement duty-free. However, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) deputy commissioner of technical customs and excise Abigail Kamwamba said Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Limited cement on duty-free status was not on President Peter Mutharika’s TPIN. She could not give further details. […]
Disturbing details are emerging on how business people connected to State House were using former President Peter Mutharika’s duty-free status to import tons of cement in the country between 2018 and 2019 from Zambia and Zimbabwe. Vice-President Saulos Chilima during the campaign period of the June 23 presidential rerun was the first to reveal that […]
Malawi Police Service fiscal department has arrested controversial deputy commissioner general at Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Roza Mbilizi on allegation of abuse of office and bootleg deals at the public tax collector. National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera confirmed the arrest, adding that Mbilizi was being kept at Blantyre Police Station. Among other issues that Mbilizi […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has clarified that the appointments of Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) commissioner general and his deputies are “provisional” and that the hiring of deputy Inspector General (IG) of Police has been withdrawn. On Wednesday Chief Secretary to Government Zangazanga Chikhosi announced the appointment of John Bizwick as MRA Commissioner General and his deputies; […]
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 […]
What started as a grievance galore where taxmen and women expressed their years of abuse in the hands of politically connected leaders has now turned into a full confrontation between junior officers and commissioners at Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA). Nyasa Times interviews conducted revealed low morale as the officers say supervisors and station leaders were […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) deputy director general Roza Mbilizi has not been reporting for duties due to unspecified illness following the investigations by Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on her involvement in bootleg deals and abuse of office at the public tax collector, Nyasa Times understands. There was no word from MRA about the nature of […]
Work equipment, machinery and money that was supposed to assist Malawi’s taxmen and women to collect enough domestically mobilised resources for development have disappeared at Msonkho House and they are untraceable even at other Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) offices. The revelations are coming out barely few days after Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Reyneck Matemba is […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) deputy commissioner general Roza Mbilizi and some officers connected to the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP) offered each other institutional houses to buy at K30 million each but the High Court has issued an order stopping the public tax collector to sale the institutional houses they are occupying. The injunction was […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) staff from offices in districts and units operating along the borders of the country have finally come out to reveal about pathetic working conditions, tribalism and nepotism that the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) harshly perpetuated at the organisation over all the years it was in power. However, the DPP […]