{"id":72602,"date":"2018-12-28T10:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72602"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:35:47","slug":"construction-firm-prays-for-soft-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/construction-firm-prays-for-soft-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction firm prays for soft taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Chimwemwe Mangazi:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72610\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pascar-mkanda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pascar-mkanda-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pascar-mkanda-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pascar-mkanda.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MKANDA\u2014 We should be considered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The government has been urged to consider reducing taxes on imported construction materials to help towards infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>The call came out during a dinner one of the players, Difference Construction Company, organised recently for its clients in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Difference Construction Chief Innovation Officer, Pascal Mkanda, said the sector\u2019s performance was affected by fluctuation in prices of materials on the international market.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is into production of environmental-friendly blocks, hollow blocks, bricks, and interlocking bricks among others.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe would love if we were considered as a sector,\u201d<\/em> Mkanda said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Deputy Director of Environmental Affairs in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Michael Makonombera, said the sector\u2019s players are playing a pivotal role towards national development.<\/p>\n<p>Figures he provided shows that currently 850, 000 metric tons of wood are used in a year for brick-burning, leading to land degradation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe are currently reviewing regulations in the mining and energy sectors to facilitate growth of the sector,\u201d<\/em> Makonombera said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is estimated that at the current rate of cutting down trees, Malawi will have no single tree in the next 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: The government has been urged to consider reducing taxes on imported construction materials to help towards infrastructure development. The call came out during a dinner one of the players, Difference Construction Company, organised recently for its clients in Lilongwe. Difference Construction Chief Innovation Officer, Pascal Mkanda, said the sector\u2019s performance was affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72612,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72602\/revisions\/72612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}