The opposition UPND Youths in Lusaka have charged that President Edgar Lungu missed a golden opportunity in parliament last Friday to highlight how his administration intends to deal with the unemployment crisis in the country. UPND Lusaka Province Youth Spokesperson Otis Bwalya tells Q News in a statement that the Zambian youths were expecting the Head of State to spend ...

Green Party President Peter Sinkamba has written to the Minister of Finance Margret Mwanakatwe demanding immediate issue of a waiver to formally exempt individuals who own residential properties from paying withholding tax on rental income. The Green Party leader says the waiver should hold until an equitable system is put in place to ensure poor and unemployed landlords are unduly exploited ...

Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema has demanded for the immediate cancellation of the newly introduced tax on boreholes and ground water saying it will not in any way benefit the poor Zambians. The opposition leader notes with displeasure the levels of what he terms more punitive taxes being imposed on the country by the Patriotic ...