Zimbabweans now overtaxed

Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa on Wednesday said Zimbabweans are overtaxed and shot down a proposal by some legislators for government to introduce a levy to mobilise resources in the fight against cancer.

As the world celebrated World Cancer Day on Wednesday, local legislators sought to push government to take drastic measures in the fight against the disease by mobilising additional resources to capacitate local health institutions.

The legislators argued that the levy would take the form of the Aids levy which government compulsorily introduced for all formal sector employees in the 1990s to mobilise funds in the fight against the pandemic.

But Chinamasa told legislators during Parliament's question and answer session that he would not support introduction of such a measure.