The Herald (Harare)
26 May 2009
THE plight of civil and uniformed servants of the State, trying to not just survive but pay their bills and educate their children on US$100 a month, shows up the desperate need for the Government to collect all taxes owed to it.
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It's going to take a long time for Bob and his goons to pay up the taxes which they havn't paid in the last 29 years. Collect this cash I reckon it could kickstart the \Zim economy 20 times over.
Corruption starts at the top.
What incentive is there for the Povo to pay their taxes when all they see are the chefs driving around in their mercedes and 4WDs from their fancy houses to their free week-end farms, knowing full well that they have got there through being connected and not through honest labour?
Start throwing some politburo members in gaol and dig up some of their secret bank accounts; and then perhaps people will feel like paying taxes.