{"id":6405,"date":"2011-12-06T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2011-12-06T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:07:51","slug":"salima-in-bicycle-taxi-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/06\/salima-in-bicycle-taxi-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Salima in Bicycle Taxi Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/salima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6408\" title=\"salima\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/salima.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a>SALIMA: As one way of improving its financial management, the Salima district council has launched a special campaign that aims at increasing revenue collection across the district.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, the council intends to introduce tax for bicycle taxi operators.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Finance at Salima District council Mr. Steve Kanyerere says the exercise would help reduce the council\u2019s overdependence on government subventions.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Kanyerere, the Salima District council has been failing to mobilize enough funds from revenue collection in the past years.<\/p>\n<p>He said the development has been negatively affecting operations at the council as it has been paralyzing various planned development activities in the end.<\/p>\n<p>He said the council is optimistic that a month long campaign that has been launched will help the council to reduce its overdependence on other recurrent transaction funding to fulfill its fiscal budget annually.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Finance said in the past the council has been borrowing ORT funds to implement some of its planned activities, a development he said has been compromising management of finances at the council.<\/p>\n<p>Among other activities, the campaign will see the council improving collection of market fees in all markets within the council\u2019s jurisdiction, bar licensing as well as collection of town rates.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, plans are underway for the council to introduce tax amongst bicycle taxi operators as another way of improving collection of revenue.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>&#8211; Zodiak Online<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALIMA: As one way of improving its financial management, the Salima district council has launched a special campaign that aims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1392,876,772,1157],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","tag-bicycle","tag-salima","tag-tax","tag-taxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}