Illicit Liquor ‘Robs’ BURS Of Millions

Tax experts have seen this as a sign that the government is losing huge sums of money in uncollected tax due to the porous systems at the borders.

“There is a lot of alcohol coming into the country. This is despite that law enforcers are all over the borderlines. The police and the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) continue to make arrests of people with large amounts of alcohol they cannot account for and investigations have shown that most of these come in through the borders,” a source said.