By Alois Vinga
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube Friday scrapped the payment of Value Added Tax (VAT) on rice imports effectively bowing down to pressure mounted by millers and retailers.
Under new measures enshrined in Statutory Instrument (SI) 15 of 2021, the Treasury boss scrapped duty on various types of 25kg of rice pre-packaged for retail sale.
The decision was made in line with Section 78 of the Value Added Tax Act [Chapter 23:12] and came into effect on the first of May 2021.
“It is hereby notified that the Minister of Finance has made these regulations which may be cited as the Value Added Tax (General) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 (No.57),” Ncube said in the SI.
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How NNPC tackled DPR, pushed Buhari to return revoked oilfields to Addax
The clash is another example of how government agencies appear to work at cross purposes and succeed in having the president do their bidding.
Days before the restoration of four oil mining licenses to Addax Petroleum, the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) launched a blistering tackle on its sister agency, Department of Petroleum Resources, with a strong appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse DPR’s revocation of the OMLs and reject a reallocation to another company.
The NNPC in a letter to the president on April 20 argued that the revocation of the oilfields would have implications on the Nigerian economy and the diplomatic relationship between Nigeria and China. Addax is owned by Sinopec, a state-owned Chinese firm, the nine-page memo seen PREMIUM TIMES shows.
Prevention is better than cure
Huge trucks excavate coal from an open cast coal mine at Hangwe Colliery.
In Zimbabwe, environmental rights are among the fundamental rights and freedoms conferred on every person as per the Constitution. Before the enactment of the new Constitution in 2013, environmental rights were not recognised as a fundamental human rights issue.
Although the government had developed various strategies and legislation on environmental conservation, like the National Conservation Strategy in 1987 and the Environmental Management Act (EMA) in 2004, these had not firmly established environmental rights within the framework of fundamental rights and freedoms.
The constitutional status of environmental rights, therefore, raised their profile, equalising them to other rights such as the right to life. This created massive expectations from communities, often affected by negative environmental impacts such as river pollution and exposure to toxic substances, that the