BURS’ search for missing tax billions starts with booze industry
Monday, July 04, 2022 | 3300 Views |

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.
Our youth are perishing; their once hopeful bright future is going down the drain; all because of illicit drugs.It is very easy to blame the addict, but it is not as simple as that! Drug dealing is a very lucrative business for some shameless people amongst our society and as such they have come up with tight strategies on how to push their business.Drug addiction is bad, and while the individual on drugs sometimes might have been the one who...