Cleaning up mining taxes

Cleaning up mining taxes

Good afternoon. President Daniel Chapo has promised to reduce waste and corruption in government, but when will it be possible to measure his success? One test has arisen in the form of the taxation of mining licences (see below). Mining licence holders are liable to pay a “surface tax”, even if they are not using it, but in practice, there are a great many plots of idle land covered by mining licences where the tax, although minor, is not being…