AT least 74 officials at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) have been arrested on charges of corruption, it has been learnt.<\/p>\n
Zimra chief loss control manager, Tapiwa Manyika told NewZimbabwe.com in an interview that perceptions that the tax collector is among the most corrupt institutions in the country are misplaced.<\/p>\n
Manyika argued that the perceptions have been formulated because Zimra has been at the forefront of exposing the scourge within its ranks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk about it and people have decided to view us as corrupt because we talk more about it unlike other divisions, we are quite many stakeholders at the border but you rarely hear our colleagues speaking about corruption the way we do,\u201d Manyika said.<\/p>\n
\u201c74 people from 2018 to date have been arrested for corruption. So it\u2019s not that we are not doing anything about it and we have devised lots of tools to assist us in dealing with corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWe go to an extent of publishing what is happening in the fight against corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manyika said Zimra has put in place measures to curtail corruption including lifestyle audits.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are the pioneers of lifestyle audit policy in the country. We have got a working life style audit policy where we audit our officers on their income versus what they are spending and ask them to explain the difference and we have recovered properties through that policy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other one is the asset declaration policy in which we ask all our employees to declare their assets periodically to update their asset registers. If you are caught with an asset which was not declared with the employer, you will be dismissed. You will not be asked to explain. You will be dismissed,\u201d the Zimra official said.<\/p>\n
Manyika also said some government employees from different departments working at ports of entry are mistaken for Zimra officials and their misdeeds are lumped on to the taxman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AT least 74 officials at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) have been arrested on charges of corruption, it has been learnt. Zimra chief loss control manager, Tapiwa Manyika told NewZimbabwe.com in an interview that perceptions that the tax collector is among the most corrupt institutions in the country are misplaced. Manyika argued that the perceptions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[530,55,725],"class_list":{"0":"post-11841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-zimra"},"yoast_head":"\n