The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) says it is happy with positive response by the general public to its recent amnesty to clear imported vehicles since the exercise started.
ZRA Public Relations manager Tospy Sikalinda says that the Authority is happy with the response form the general public to normalize there motor vehicles across the country.
Mr Sikalinda said the Authority is working together with Road transport and safety agency (RATSA), and the international Police (Interpol) in the operations in various ZRA offices across the Country.
ZANIS reports the ZRA Public Relations manager said in an interview in Lusaka today that this is to ensure that the owners of the vehicle are helped with clearing of the documentation for their vehicles and are cleared.
“ The response has so far been generally good more especially in Lusaka , Copperbelt including Nakonde border town is also doing fine compared to the other boarders towns the response has not been good,’’ he said.
Once the Amnesty period is over on the May 26 ,2021, the Authority will not extend the amnesty to the public and will thus impound all the vehicles illegally imported in the country.
Recently, the ZRA introduced an amnesty to the general public to clear all the illegally imported motor vehicles that were imported in the Country to legally clear their vehicles from on March 20, 2021 to May 26, 2021 as the deadline go make their records cleared.
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OTHERWISE KEEP QUIET
A simple process anywhere else in the world is complex in Zambia so that party cadres can be ‘agents.’ What used to be straightforward process that took just a couple of days from customs clearance to registration has become so tortuous and cumbersome that if one does not use the unemployed youths who have all the time in the world to run around offices, it will take a week and long hours of waiting in offices to do. In some African countries, duty and car registration are paid for at the same time. Only a REGISTERED vehicle is released by customs. Why can’t interpol inspect the vehicles while they are in the customs yard?