Government to make U-turn on districts remitting local revenues to treasury

The minister of Local Government has said government is considering reversing a directive requiring districts to remit all locally generated revenue to the national treasury.

This follows persistent outcries from district leaders that the directive is failing service delivery as a result of late remittance of quarterly releases.

Mr Raphael Magyezi said a recent cabinet meeting agreed with the parliamentary decision to reverse the directive and local governments regain full control over their taxes and plan accordingly.

“It is really…