BURS’ search for missing tax billions starts with booze industry
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In the spotlight: The BURS’ hunt for tax dodgers is starting with the alcohol and tobacco industry PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Experts at the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) believe that if every taxpayer in the country paid their dues, there would either have been no need for the shock tax increases last year or at least the levels of the increments would have been lower.
Instead, a highly revealing tax gap analysis by the agency has found that up to 60 percent, or nearly two in three taxpayers are dodging their obligations, meaning a higher burden on those who actually pay their dues.
Hurt as he may have been, former president Ian Khama, Sir Seretse’s senior son who was given an opportunity to speak on behalf of the Seretse family, couldn’t mince his words as he took advantage to shred his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi to pieces.He, however, did not clearly mention names but he referred to Masisi as the leader of a political party that was founded amongst others by his father.He would also address him as the former State...