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The Betting Levy Bill,2025

The objects of this Bill is to —
(a) provide for the imposition, payment and collection of a
betting levy; and
(b) provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the
forgoing.

The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025

The object of this Bill is to amend the Value Added Tax Act so
as to provide for remission of unrecovered tax, fine or interest due.

 

The Customs and Excise (Amendment) Bill No 2, 2025

The object of this Bill is to amend the Customs and Excise Act so as to—

(a) revise the rates of customs and excise duty payable on certain goods;

(b) introduce specific duty rates on used hybrid vehicles;

(c) introduce excise duty on firearms and bullets;

(d) revise the list of goods subject to surtax at importation; and

(e) provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.
 

The income Tax (Amendment Bill) No 2, 2025

The object of this Bill is to amend the Income Tax Act so as to —

(a) introduce income tax concessions for public-private partnership projects in the railway sector;

(b) remove carry forward time limitation of disallowed interest;

(c) increase the amount allowed as a deduction for a business that employs a person with disability to two thousand five hundred Kwacha per annum from two thousand Kwacha per annum;

(d) extend the requirement to keep books of account in United States Dollars to a person carrying out mineral processing;

The Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill , 2025

The object of this Bill is to amend the Criminal Procedure Code so as to
(a) provide for forensic criminal procedures; 
(b) make defilement, rape, incest, stock theft, stealing medicine, medical supplies, coltan, copper, diamond, gold, railway, aircraft, vertical signalisation installation with associated facilities and installations, distribution system, transmission system, vessels, traffic sign and navigation mark non-bailable; 

The Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Bill, 2025

he objects of this Bill are to
(a) continue the existence of the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation and re-define its functions; 
(b) reconstitute the Board of the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation and re-define its functions; 
(c) provide for the imposition, payment and collection of a broadcast levy; 
(d) repeal and replace the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Act, Cap. 154; and 
(e) provide  for  matters  connected  with,  or incidental to, the foregoing.

 

The Independent Broadcasting Authority Bill , 2025

The objects of this Bill are to
 (a) continue the existence of the Independent Broadcasting Authority and re-define its functions; 
(b) reconstitute the Board of the Independent Broadcasting Authority and re-define its functions; 
(c) regulate the broadcasting industry in the Republic; 
(d) provide for pluralism and diversity in the broadcasting industry;
 (e) repeal and replace the Independent Broadcasting Authority Act, Cap. 171; and 
(f) provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.

 

The Registration of Business Name (Amendment) Bill ,2025

The object of this Bill is to amend the Registration of Business Names Act so as to provide for   (a) the disclosure of beneficial ownership information by a firm that is a corporation;  
 (b) the retention, by the Registrar, of records of a business name whose certificate has been cancelled, for a specified period; and
 (c) provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.

 

The Mobile Money Transaction Levy (Amendment) Bill , 2025

The objects of this Bill is to amend the Mobile Money Transaction Levy Act, 2024, so as to
 (a) revise the levy payable on a person to person transfer; and
 (b) provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the forgoing.

 

The Property Transfer Tax (Amendment) Bill , 2025

The object of this Bill is to amend the Property Transfer  Act, so as to
 (a) extend the tax relief applicable to a company transferring the shares and a company receiving the shares that has been part of a group of companies which is subject of a group reorganization;
 (b) limit the forms of surrender or forfeiture of shares for no consideration that are exempt from property transfer tax; and
 (c) provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.

 

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