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Common Swaziland Government Business Trends ? ?The Case of Income Tax and the Road Transportation Board?
I’m fortunate to be in a study group with people from different working environments and industries as I pursue my Masters in Business Leadership at UNISA by correspondence from Swaziland. It’s always interesting to learn how some business declares themselves loss making to escape taxation while they make millions. This was declared by a colleague whose business clients undoubtedly make millions yet they send false reports to government income tax offices. The only sad part is that the employees are the ones who shoulder the government on taxes as they have no ways of escaping. I happen to be an employee who knows how much the government collects from my salary. I bet, if all my annual tax could come to me at the end of the year, I would take my family for a holiday in Mauritius because it’s relatively high.
Who cares when tax collectors are sleeping on the job. It is very common to have managers doing their personal businesses at work while government work is suffering. This goes to extend of abusing working tools like computers, cars and the telephone. Apparently, no one cracks the whip.
Another good example is that at the Road Transportation Board where two officers are reported only to come to work for at most five hours and sometimes not at all yet they get their full pay at the end of the month. This is no surprise because the boss knows them and fails to call them to order for reasons best known to him. This undoubtedly results in long queues from staff shortage, high work pressure levels for the few that remain to do the job and to fruitless expenditure on full salaries to employees that don’t deserve it.
Fear of Travel an Experience More Common Than You Think
Anyone who has ever experience a fear of flying may be surprised to learn that in some cases it is secondary to an actual fear of travel! The latter is not a term that is commonly found in the textbooks speaking of phobias and disorders, and generally you may find components relating to the fear of travel in such tomes – namely Agoraphobia, Claustrophobia, Xenophobia, Aviophobia, and a host of other fears and anxiety producing disorder – but an honest to goodness definition cannot be found.
Experiencing the fear of travel is normal and if in your heart of hearts you have had to grapple with it, do not believe for a moment that you are alone! Instead, revel in the fact that there are others like you who – almost immediately upon planning or announcing a much anticipated trip to an exotic locale or even one closer to home – suffer from troublesome self-doubts. Second guessing why they chose the one destination over another, leaving their home state rather than traveling stateside, worrying about the food that might aggravate gastrointestinal health issues currently being experienced, and finally in light of an impending airline flight experience the gambit of anxiety, panic and fear is not alien to such reluctant travelers with a fear of travel.