{"id":41286,"date":"2023-02-27T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T22:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz"},"modified":"2023-02-27T23:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:04:42","slug":"new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz","title":{"rendered":"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met with frustration from local business owners who say the move is retrogressive and harms their ability to operate in the country.<\/p>\n

President Hakainde Hichilema\u2019s government has given tax incentives to foreign companies in the mining and tourism sectors, yet the new health permit fee of K1,500 has been introduced without any public awareness, according to reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now President Hichilema\u2019s Government has unleashed Zambia Police and Council Officers in the CBD,\u201d said Silavwe Jackson, President of the Golden Party of Zambia (GPZ).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Dawn Government has unleashed Zambia Police officers and council police officers to the central business district (CBD) of Lusaka to harass small and medium businesses to pay for the health permit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson added that the fee was \u201cextremely unfortunate\u201d and that President Hichilema had never given any tax incentives to small and medium indigenous businesses, suggesting the government doesn\u2019t care about businesses for common Zambians.<\/p>\n

Hardly two weeks ago, President Hakainde Hichilema met with a group of business persons who companies have very strong foreign monopoly capital at Statehouse with a view to ease their business operations in Zambia, but indigenous businesses are struggling in the new dawn economy, according to Jackson.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely we can only surmise that President Hakainde Hichilema and his administration do not understand the economic hardships facing their own people,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they do, then President Hichilema and Honourable Garry Nkombo simply don\u2019t care about businesses for common Zambians.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that a compassionate government must be moving towards streamlining city council levies into one to allow maximum production and expansion of local small and medium businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on President Hichilema and his administration to abolish the health permit if they really care for the poor people and their businesses,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n

The GPZ has called on the government to find a solution to the levy, which they say harms the ability of local small and medium businesses to thrive.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal small and medium businesses should be the ones to sustain the economy, not suffocating them into closure,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n

The Lusaka City Council and the government have not responded to the calls to abolish the health permit.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met with frustration from local business owners who say the move is retrogressive and harms their ability to operate in the country. President Hakainde Hichilema\u2019s government has given tax incentives to foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-41286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met wi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met wi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-27T22:44:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-27T23:04:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"601\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-27T22:44:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-27T23:04:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz\"},\"wordCount\":404,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz\",\"name\":\"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ - Zambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-27T22:44:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-27T23:04:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met wi ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":601,\"caption\":\"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\",\"name\":\"Zambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ - Zambia","description":"The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met wi ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ","og_description":"The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met wi ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz","og_site_name":"Zambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-02-27T22:44:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-27T23:04:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":601,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ","datePublished":"2023-02-27T22:44:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-27T23:04:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz"},"wordCount":404,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zambia","Zambia"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz","name":"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ - Zambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg","datePublished":"2023-02-27T22:44:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-27T23:04:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The introduction of a new mandatory levy on small and medium businesses by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been met wi ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1677525333.26.jpg","width":720,"height":601,"caption":"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/new-dawn-governments-mandatory-health-permit-levy-retrogressive-gpz#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New Dawn Government\u2019s Mandatory Health Permit Levy, Retrogressive-GPZ"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/","name":"Zambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}