Agricultural land owners who have not yet submitted their postal addresses for tax purposes to the Ministry of Land Reform can face fines of up to N$20 000 or a jail sentence of five years, or both.

It warns that those who fail to complete the forms face a N$20 000 fine or five years behind bars, or both, as set out in the land valuation and taxation regulations of December 2001.

A crisis in Namibia’s mining industry was narrowly averted this week when the Cabinet agreed to review proposed new taxes after two tense weeks of negotiations between the finance ministry and ...