in Part 2 of this exclusive interview, Mr Michael Phiri, Tax Partner at KPMG Zambia, zooms in on mining’s financial contribution – in the past, present and future.
The Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) recently revealed that 41.8% of Government’s tax...
Zambia wasted no time in making a splash at last week’s Investing in African Mining Indaba, the annual four-day event at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre that brings together investors, political leaders, commodity traders, and companies across the mining...
a great new era awaits for critical minerals, the benefits of which hinge on the quality and stability of policy and regulatory responses.
This was one area of consensus that was reached this weekend, when Government, business, and civil society came...
Ahead of the 2022 Budget announcement on 29 October 2021, Professor Saasa spoke to Mining For Zambia about how the establishment of “a formal dialogue architecture” could help Government realise its production goal of two million tonnes of copper...
It is Monday, 14th November. Midday. The budget speech was three days ago. Zambia’s new Minister of Finance, Hon. Felix Mutati, is clearly a man in demand. He has just spent the last three hours at a KPMG post-budget...
If you raise the tax rate you get more tax revenue, right? Not necessarily. Raising tax rates beyond a certain point can have the opposite effect, and actually produce lower taxes.
Did you know? Governments receive more taxes from increasing production than...
Zambia's mining industry has long been held up as the sector with the potential to transform the economy and elevate the country to middle-income status and, in 2021, the New Dawn Government began actively marketing that dream. Nine months...
The Zambia Chamber of Mines has released a report on the impact of the Government’s proposed Sales Tax. In case you haven’t had time to read it, here are the key take-aways: The research illustrates that many Zambian mining...
At a time when Zambia, and many other countries, are trying to maximise tax revenue from big foreign companies, Ireland is doing the exact opposite.
Ireland, a member of the European Union (EU), was ordered by the European Commission to...
The global consensus, on display at last month’s World Copper Conference, is that copper will play a vital part in the coming ‘fourth industrial revolution’. Other mining jurisdictions are preparing for the massive increase in demand that is anticipated....
