The Zambian Government’s collection of ZMW 40.1 billion in revenue and grants between January and May 2021 has been welcomed by the Secretary to the Treasury, which noted last month that the sums collected are “an impressive 43 percent...
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...
A two-man team from Chile’s mining industry visited Zambia recently and met with the Chamber of Mines, the Presidency, the Zambia Revenue Authority’s Mineral Value Chain Monitoring Project, and ZCCM-IH. What lessons can Zambia learn from Chile, the world’s...
Good Nature Agro grew out of a chance meeting between Sunday Silungwe and Carl Jensen at Zambia’s International Development Design Summit. Silungwe’s background in developmental studies and Jensen’s passion for agricultural development sparked conversations about post-harvest loss, and the...
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...
ZCCM-IH's recently announced decision to move from a dividend model to a revenue-sharing model has been both praised and criticised in the media but, concerningly, the rationale and details appear to be widely misunderstood. Mining For Zambia asked renowned...
Does raising the tax rate actually deliver more taxes? What is the ‘right’ rate? Mining taxes are in the news again. Read this report, and be the expert around the family table this Christmas.
Since ZCCM-IH announced its decision to take a share of Kansanshi’s quarterly revenues in lieu of dividend payments, there’s been no shortage of uncertainty about what this really means. Confusing media reports haven’t helped, and often the truth gets...
A major criticism of the extractive industries in developing countries is that they leave a hole in the ground and not much else. In a nutshell, the argument goes, the lucrative minerals beneath the soil generate significant wealth for...
In September 2017, the Economics Association of Zambia called on the Zambian government to create a mineral stabilisation fund to help the country weather economic downturns.
When copper prices are high, a portion of Zambia’s mining revenues would be invested...
