How to make Zambians rich
THIS preoccupation we have always had with foreign investors and IMF stuff will never make us rich! We need for once to focus on Zambians! Help Zambians get capital both home and abroad!
ZDA should be preoccupied with Zambians! We should remove jealousy! Allow people to have money! Discourage law enforcement officers to harass people! Why follow up a person even when there is no complainant?
We need to Zambianise our GDP! Chalo chesu chino!
We need to develop a programme where we need to develop billionaires! If a Zambian has a small business we go for them using tax authorities and other LEAs?
If it is found that one was not paying taxes, put corrective measures to ensure the person complies! Don’t close them down! Half of the small businesses can’t even afford accountants that can help make tax returns because they have to pay a lot of fees to thecentral and local government just to operate!
A country taxing 37 percent on a person getting $350 salary should forget about removing people out of poverty! What my people at the budget office have forgotten is that when the highest tax band was 35 percent at K5, 000 salary, K5, 000 was $1, 000! Now $1, 000 is K26 ,000 so even the highest tax band should move to that level!
One of the principles of a tax system is that it should be flexible! Ours is not! How can Government take away 37 percent on earnings above $350! When will Zambians become entrepreneurs?
We need to start critically analysing things!
Even this cholera thing! We keep on blaming shallow wells! When was the last time Lusaka Water built a new sewer pipeline system?
The whole of Lusaka survives on soak-aways and boreholes when water is plenty in rivers and also we still have ability to build sewer systems! Today, you are crying about cholera? Next after this nomba nimpele (scabies)! We are too much serious with mediocrity and mediocre at serious things! Entertaining clowns that were clobbered in the east instead of discussing serious issues and people who can inspire us and help us slip away from poverty!
We need to start with reducing the tax burden! Remove all barriers to business! The fees are too high and every government department wants its share!
Remove jealousy in decision making! These things of politics are useless and don’t come before wealth creation! Let’s have a normal conversation! How can we entertain poverty as a country?
Enough is enough! We need to start getting rich! Ministry of Finance and National Planning should revisit the taxes now and allow citizens to save! Savings are the ones that convert into investments! Do you think it’s normal that we still have grass thatched houses? Do you think it’s normal that every day we are making funeral contributions because people can’t save money during their lifetime?
Do you think it’s normal to say don’t entertain that one because they are UPND, PF, Socialist or the other? Is that a normal society? In fact, are we even okay ourselves?
Let’s also remove the begging syndrome! I can’t even park my car in peace without people asking for money? By the time the day ends, all the cash I had is gone!
But to remove begging we need to empower the needy! Inculcate in them a spirit of entrepreneurship! Help them become independent!