{"id":182737,"date":"2024-10-17T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-endorse-taxation-say-it-is-fair-to-tax-the-rich-at-higher-rates-to-support-the-poor\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:26:40","slug":"zambians-endorse-taxation-say-it-is-fair-to-tax-the-rich-at-higher-rates-to-support-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-endorse-taxation-say-it-is-fair-to-tax-the-rich-at-higher-rates-to-support-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Endorse Taxation, Say It Is Fair to Tax the Rich At Higher Rates to Support the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">But most citizens say it is difficult to find out what taxes they owe and how the government uses tax revenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost two-thirds (64%) of Zambians said tax authorities always have the right to make people pay taxes.<\/li>\n<li>Most Zambians (70%) said Parliament should hold the president accountable for how the government spends taxpayers&#8217; money.<\/li>\n<li>About one in five citizens (22%) said &#8220;most&#8221; or &#8220;all&#8221; tax officials are involved in corruption, a less negative assessment than respondents offered&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But most citizens say it is difficult to find out what taxes they owe and how the government uses tax revenues. Key findings Almost two-thirds (64%) of Zambians said tax authorities always have the right to make people pay taxes. Most Zambians (70%) said Parliament should hold the president accountable for how the government spends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,9180,7724,8056,257,8943,12850,12809,254,6096,8352,7054,881,9005],"class_list":["post-182737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-endorse","tag-fair","tag-higher","tag-news","tag-poor","tag-rates","tag-rich","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-tax","tag-taxation","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}