By BUUMBA CHIMBULUFAIR taxation policies and realistic licensing conditions that ensure stability coupled with a proper functioning business environment will attract investment in a country.Any business will be attracted by a good and proper functioning business environment, which includes fair taxation policies and realistic licensing conditions that ensure stability so that businesses are able to predict as their investments go forward.This is according to the United Kingdom government’s Trade Envoy to Zambia and Angola, Laurence Robertson.Mr Robertson therefore acknowledged the improved business environment and congratulated the Zambian government for its decisive moves to encourage a new era of mining investment for the benefit of all Zambians.He said this recently when he toured the Kansanshi Foundation community development initiatives.“The new Government seems totally convinced of the need to create an attractive environment for those businesses which are already here, and which will continue to invest and make new investments; as indeed they will need to do. […]
‘FAIR TAXATION NEEDED TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT’
