{"id":1567,"date":"2025-10-10T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:56:18","slug":"tax-perception-survey-tps-enjoys-enthusiastic-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Tax Perception Survey (TPS) enjoys enthusiastic response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Staff Writer \u2013 The Zimbabwe Tax Perception Survey (TPS), which we launched on Thursday, 25 September 2025, has received wide support and a growing response rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The first survey of its nature by a local think-tank is intended to gather the taxpayers\u2019 perceptions regarding the country\u2019s tax regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We amplify calls for the government of Zimbabwe to reform the country\u2019s tax regime, which many stakeholders, including think-tanks, labour, businesses, civil society, and ordinary people, have deemed burdensome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We began the first phase with a general survey questionnaire, which we have now distributed to over 45,000 people, with a huge response rate, through social media and physical engagements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The survey can be accessed via an online link, physical and social media fliers with a scannable barcode, and has also been administered through direct calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Among the key groups the survey has reached are labour, residents, informal traders, students, civil society and social justice activists, researchers, the media, and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We have launched the second phase of the survey, including a key informant interview (KII) this week, targeting experts, sectoral leaders, and key stakeholders in the taxation thematic area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The survey will form ZITAP\u2019s evidence-based strategy towards taxation policy and reform advocacy in the country.<br>The general survey can be accessed <a href=\"http:\/\/shorturl.at\/FrwGW\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/shorturl.at\/FrwGW\">here<\/a>, and the Key Informant Interview (KII) can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/RDg3i\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/RDg3i\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Writer \u2013 The Zimbabwe Tax Perception Survey (TPS), which we launched on Thursday, 25 September 2025, has received wide support and a growing response rate. The first survey of its nature by a local think-tank is intended to gather the taxpayers\u2019 perceptions regarding the country\u2019s tax regime. We amplify calls for the government of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zitap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecazw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}