Meanwhile, the authority has in the first 100 days of the amnesty programme collected over K700 million.
ZRA commissioner-general Kingsley Chanda said out of the K4.1 billion that has been refunded, K329 million relates to long outstanding VAT Rule 18 refund arrears, while K3.7 billion relates to the current period.
Mr Chanda said of the total amount refunded, 76 percent was made to mining companies, while the remainder was made to other sectors of the economy.
“I wish to inform the nation that our vigilant audit teams discovered some fraudulent refund claims. This discovery prompted us to take a more cautious approach when paying refunds,” he said.
Mr Chanda said all tax-payers who could have been refunded on fake documents are earmarked for a forensic audit to be launched soon.
“I must emphasise, however, that VAT Rule 18 withheld refunds in 2013/14. We shall not refund without full documentation as was required by law at the time. I further wish to inform tax-payers that we intend to propose to cap the period in which this process will be allowed seeing that it has been five years now, and exporters have failed to produce authentic documents,” he said.
You should have kept your refunds and kept the Post open for heavens sake.
Thanks
Bb2014,2016
Why is a government department doing its job such big news… headlines to tell the IMF hey look what we are doing. Just like a cockerel crowing for nothing.
Rule of law says to comply with the law if vat refunds are due according to the law you pay them. Thats the rule of law that zambia is governed by as espoused by HE ECL and Amos Chanda so many times
LT you let KUDOS spew vitriol and when i say that zra is just doing its job my post is under moderation. And you say zambia is a democracy with free speech. Just depends who you are . Rubbish behaviour