Zimra starts forcing workers to declare assets

Speaking during a media workshop in Bulawayo yesterday, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) acting Commissioner-General Happias Kuzvinzwa said the revenue collector has since started forcing its workers to declare their assets in an effort to fight corruption.

Said Kuzvinzwa:

We at Zimra are fighting corruption from within our officers to the point where we have taken it upon ourselves to demand our employees to declare their assets. If you fail to disclose your source of that property, then a disciplinary procedure is taken and, as we speak, we have dealt with some of our officers and those who were proven to be corrupt have been dismissed.

Kuzvinzwa also encouraged people to report incidents of corruption and stated that they have a whistleblower facility whereby an individual who provides specific information which results in the recovery of revenue is entitled to 10% of the recovered amount.

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