As NAC loses out due to low salaries The Gweru District AIDS Co-ordinator, Murari Hwingiri, said at a recent training course here that only a few civil servants earn enough money to contribute to NAC through the AIDS levy.
“Statistics have shown that only about 10% of Zimbabwe’s population is employed formally, most of them by government, and their income is below the taxable threshold.
“This means that only a few Zimbabweans, maybe only 5%, are contributing to the aids levy,” Hwingwiri explained. This is very unfair. If we can have HIV/AIDS VAT on bread and other basic commodities it will mean that everyone will contribute fairly.”
He dismissed allegations that the AIDS Levy was abused by NAC, saying the money was so little that it could not even finance salaries of all the councils workers who survive on funding from the donor community.
The National AIDS Levy makes provision for individuals and companies to pay three percent of their income and corporate tax towards the National AIDS Trust Fund, which was supposed to be used to finance various programmes to respond to the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
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