Parly to summon Zimra over whistleblower facility

PARLIAMENT says it will soon summon the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to explain how it was handling the whistleblower facility following allegations of abuse of the scheme by the tax collector’s officials, potentially prejudicing the country of millions of dollars.

Recent reports suggest that some unscrupulous Zimra officials were allegedly being paid kickbacks by defaulting companies to sit on whistle-blower reports until after six years when such records become invalid.

The practice has reportedly prejudiced the whistleblowers who, under Zimra Act (Chapter 23:11) Section 34 B, were entitled to 10% of the collected revenue.

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