REVENUE FOR LCC RISES FROM K61,000 TO K13.9 MILLION PER MONTH AFTER DIGITISING PAYMENT PLATFORM
Revenue for LCC Rises from K61,000 to K13.9million Per Month After Digitising Payment Platform.
Digitising all payments at Lusaka City Council reveal underlying, persistent and systematic theft, corruption and embedded looting of public funds.
Following the digitising of payments, monthly revenue has jumped from K61,000 a month to K13.9million a month and rising.
The Lusaka City Council collected over K13.9 million in local revenue in June 2026, up from just K61,000 in January.
This massive surge in income was driven by the e-Council digitalisation programme, which automated the council’s payment systems via the ZamPortal platform.
This broader revenue pool relies on funding and grants from central government programs (such as the Constituency Development Fund), local taxes, rates, wholesale levies, and health permits. Additionally, the council takes in steady daily and monthly revenues from major public operations like the City Market and Intercity Bus Terminus.
Imagine if revenue from InterCity Bus Terminus was properly secured?
Government must proceed to digitise revenue collections from all local authorities.
I watched Dingani Banda, the Comissioner General of the Zambia Revenue Authority( ZRA) bemoan the extremely low number of tax payers and the literal exclusion of the informal sector from the tax base.
If we tightened these mechanisms, domestic revenue will increase drastically and government’s reliance on loans and grants would come to an end.
EMV