Customs Clearing Agents in Malawi are to be offered accredited training as part of a new trade facilitation project being launched on Tuesday 2 December 2019 by the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation. The project will introduce a new licensing framework for clearing agents, complete with a training course […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has seized Zambian Chibuku Super which was smuggled into the country worth K 5 million as the public tax collector warned smuggling opaque beer into Malawi poses serious health risk; the malpractice is depriving government of tax revenues necessary for social services provision. Speaking in Lilongwe on Friday at MRA Lilongwe offices […]
Despite the widespread public outcry, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has still commenced and implementing the carbon tax with hundreds of taxpayers successfully paying the tax from Monday this week. Government says it introduced the tax for motorists to move towards mitigation of the effects of climate change and motorists will pay every year when they […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) have suspended one of their Blantyre-based employees after a video in which the woman was mocking motorists on Carbon Tax went viral on social media platforms, primarily WhatsApp. The tax-collecting body announced last week that they will be collecting Carbon Tax from motor vehicles upon renewal of Certificate of Fitness […]
Revenue collectors, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) says demands by some business people in Mzuzu to stop tax compliance officials from visiting their business premises shows lack of understanding of tax issues. Hundreds of business people and other traders on Monday took to the streets in Mzuzu to protest against what they call corrupt practices […]
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) says government vehicles will not be liable for the carbon tax. Spokesperson for MRA Steve Kapoloma said ambulances, all government vehicles and newly imported vehicles will not be liable for this tax which is effective Monday, November 25. “We need to emphasize that all money collected will go to Account number […]
Revenue collectors, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) say they will start collecting carbon tax on vehicles from Monday, a move that has received mixed reactions from Malawians. Spokesperson for MRA Steve Kapoloma says this follows the introduction of the tax by the government in the 2019/20 national budget. Carbon tax is a fee imposed on […]
Revenue collectors, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) on Friday evacuated staff from its offices in Mzuzu as armed police battled with protesters who want tax compliance officers from Blantyre and Lilongwe leave the city. The MRA officers are in Mzuzu to enforce tax compliance, a move which has irked some business people who organised over […]
The Blantyre Magistrate Court has ordered Andrew Nkome and Francis Phambiwa to pay a total sum of K250 000 fine for offences bordering on falsification of the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Electronic Generated Fiscal Device (EFD) tax invoices. Delivering her sentence, Magistrate Ellen Chapita Banda said forgery of MRA receipt is a serious offence no […]
Malawi Building and Civil Engineering Contractors and Allied Traders Association (MABCATA) and its members have recently benefited from seven taxation workshop that the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) conducted across the country. The main objective of the workshops was to explain and clarify taxation issues that affect contractors and also enhance cooperation between the Authority and […]
Well-knitted and massive tax evasion acts involving almost all players in the commercial property market have been discovered and rooting out is now ongoing by the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA). At a news conference at Msonkho House in Blantyre, MRA Commissioner General Tom Malata says the development has come to light after enforcement operations conducted […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) as well as Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) are investigating two Asian businessmen Mustak Chothia and Suleman Ismail on allegations of corruption and “severe tax evasion”, Nyasa Times understands. The corruption probe has been opened after a whistle-blower had tipped the graft-busting body. ACB director Reyneck Matemba has however refused to indicate […]
Malawi’s flagship newspaper Nation Publications Limited has defiantly continue publishing despite having the newsroom and other operation offices locked up in Blantyre by Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) accusing it of failing to pay taxes. The publication has been operating on a makeshift newsroom and was breaking no law by continuing to be in circulation with […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has shut down the flagship newspaper The Nation, which is critical of the government, accusing it of failing to pay taxes. Mbumba Banda chief executive officer of Nations Publications Limited (NPL) founded by former political stalwart late Aleke Banda confirmed the closure of its main office in Blantyre over a […]
The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) continues to forge ahead with its modernisation drive through the adoption of new ways of conducting its activities to enhance revenue collection. The introduction of Cargo scanners at border and inland stations has greatly improved the process of clearing goods and checking smuggling. The Authority’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Steven […]
Senior Chief Mponda of Mangochi has pledged to support Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) to root out smuggling and tax evasion that is rampant in his area. The chief made the remarks at his Head quarters recently when MRA officials met with 335 chiefs under his area. He added that the more tax revenue that is […]
The new tax measures for Excise Duty, administered under the Customs and Excise Act have been operational from exactly the midnight of 9 September, as presented in Parliament by the Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Joseph Mwanamveka. “Under the Tax Policy and Administration Measures that I will be announcing today, the Customs and […]
Revenue collectors, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has slapped a fierce government critic and member of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) a K80 million tax bill arrears. Gerald Kazembe, national executive committee member of the MCP contested in Mangochi Monkey parliamentary race and lost to Ralph Jooma, minister of Transport and Public Works. MRA says […]