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Felix Mutati proposes the introduction of tax education in African schools

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Mutati speaks to party officials in Ndola on Sunday.
Mutati speaks to party officials in Ndola on Sunday.

MMD faction President Felix Mutati has proposed the introduction of tax education in African schools in order to increase compliance levels by building a generation of people that understand the importance of paying tax.

Mr. Mutati made the proposal in Nairobi, Kenya during the recently held International Conference on Improving Domestic Revenue Mobilization and Stemming Illicit Financial Flows, where he was guest speaker.

He said tax education will inculcate a responsibility in children at a tender age and keep them aware of tax importance as they grow, creating a future generation that is ready and willing to pay tax as they will know and understand its importance.

Mr. Mutati’s remarks have been echoed by the Head of Economics Department at the Copperbelt University Dr. Maxmillian Mainza who also attended the conference.

Other notables from Zambia were representatives from Action Aid.

12 COMMENTS

    • @Timbwi, that how it all begins, the next thing he will be proposing a tax to fund that new curriculum. There are more important things to talk about ….

    • This man is a let down. The reason we pay taxes is so we can have free education & health NOT for sponsoring politicians luxurious lifestyles.

      Now for him to fly 1000s of miles to Kenya to suggest taxation of Primary school pupils is just madness.

    • We have no problem paying taxes. The problem we have is with the utilization of the money collected in taxes. We don’t pay taxes to hip it up for plunder.

  1. We know and understand the importance of paying tax. What we don’t just have is money. All the money is with politicians so let them pay taxes themselves

  2. A good thing Mr Mutation has told but since there are two sides to government revenue; inflows and outflows why he does not propose to teach child about obligations to spend public resources judiciously?

  3. Less than 10% of adults in Zambia pay income tax. Yet 60% of them earn an income no matter how pitiful. The tax burden on the few in Zambia is too much.

    Unfortunately, the lesson from tax history is that unless the state gets vicious, tax compliance is low. In the USA you are free to do whatever you want. Even insult ECL’s equivalent without risk of going to get sodomised. Try not paying tax. You will see. Time to put cameras or traps to ensure that all those adults prancing on the new roads being financed by the few taxpayers are tax compliant. They are free to use the bush otherwise!!

  4. It’s a good idea to try and improve our schools curricula across the board. The main issues we’ve got is that the African countries have failed to make best use of their natural resources. Unlike many countries, we give away our resources and then sit back and expect money to begin rolling in. We aren’t creative or street savvy enough to bargain for a better deal, like the Arabs have done with oil. It’s no surprise that a former finance minister would see tax as the way forward. We can do better than that. The world’s changing rapidly, my friends. We need to sit up and so something.

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