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Importation and exportation of currency by travellers into Zimbabwe
The importation and exportation of currency is governed by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in terms of the Exchange Control Act [Chapter 22:05] as read with Exchange Control Regulations, Statutory ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:16hrs | 1046 | by Zimra
Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe's donated parcel detained by Zimra
The Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe Trust a permaculture organization in Bulawayo received a donation of fruit tree seeds from a donor from Pakistan. The donor agenda was to empower the organization an...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 15:52hrs | 489 | by Enos Denhere
Beitbridge border expansion commences
EXPANSION work on the Beitbridge Border Post appears to be finally starting eight months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa laid the foundation for the $241 million upgrade of Zimbabwe's premier port....Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:47hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
Confusion reins over Mthuli Ncube's budget currency
CONFUSION still reins over Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2019 budget statement, which is in United States dollars, yet it remains unclear whether or not prescribed fines are payable in bond notes or...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:05hrs | 5955 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt donates seized second hand clothes to Zanu-PF supporters
THE government has parceled out loads of goods seized by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) to villagers in Uzumba Maramba-Pfungwe (UMP), an area that has consistently given Zanu-PF the biggest vo...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1127 | by newzimbabwe
Zimra not auctioning seized vehicles
THE Customs and Excise Department is not in a hurry to auction impounded vehicles worth millions of dollars held at its various ports countrywide despite their depreciation and threats from yet unexpl...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel marking will deter smuggling
Energy and Power Development Minister Joram Gumbo says his ministry has requested funding, potentially several millions of dollars from Treasury, to start fuel marking to curtail illegal activit...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
'Magaya church not paying tax'
THE Walter Magaya-led Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries was yesterday accused before a Harare magistrate of violating the Income Tax Act after failing to declare tax sales of over $28,7 mil...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:17hrs | 2288 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now facing condom crisis
Zimbabwe is now facing condom challenges as donors are pulling back.This was said by the Director of AIDS and TB Unit in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr Owen Mugurungi at the Interna...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 15:12hrs | 6333 | by Staff reporter
Impounded smuggled goods overwhelm Zimra
ZIMRA is overwhelmed by impounded smuggled goods that are piling and taking up space at three warehouses in Mutare.Zimra regional manager Mr Innocent Chikuni told heads of Government departmen...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya, Chivayo cornered
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya has been summoned by the police for allegedly evading $22 million tax, while Wicknell Chivayo appeared in court yesterday for al...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1233 | by Staff reporter
Zimra collects $516m in January
The government has realised $516 million from tax collections in January, according to official statistics from the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority. The governme...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 15:33hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
ZBC takes 5 ex-bosses to court over $6m prejudice
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has dragged its four ex-senior executives and former board chairperson Cuthbert Dube to court for allegedly illegally benefitting themselves from $6 million...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1766 | by Staff reporter
Dismissal of Zacc commissioners commendable
Corruption in Zimbabwe has to be stamped out. On January 31, 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired the entire Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) in a move that was hailed as progressive....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:28hrs | 550 | by Gloria Ndoro-Mkombachoto
Zimra adds 20 000 new taxpayers
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) registered 20 000 new taxpayers last year as it ratcheted up efforts to increase tax compliance.Revenues accrued to the national purse in the 11-month pe...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:43hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's illegal tax legislation
How often has the need for foreign investment (FDI) been stated? Nothing can put off a potential foreign investor more than to ascertain that the rule of law does not apply under Zimbabwe tax law. Fir...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | 413 | by Lindsay H Cook
Return of the Zimdollar?
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya is due to release the monetary policy and the policy position is highly anticipated against the sustained monetary related macro-economic defi...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:00hrs | 7251 | by Respect Gwenzi
Prophet Magaya church accounts garnished by Zimra
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has garnished Walter Magaya's Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries accounts for alleged tax arrears amounting to $22 million.According to a...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 3174 | by Staff reporter
Zimra mum on Beitbridge warehouse inferno
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has declined to disclose the value of goods lost in three fire incidents in which its warehouses at Beitbridge Border Post were razed to the ground, saying the i...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:13hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge not prepared for disasters
BEITBRIDGE residents have called on authorities to enhance the border town's disaster preparedness after officials conceded that facilities were not up to scratch.Unless major improvements are...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:01hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
'Zimra employees didn't burn warehouse'
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to advise its valued members of the public that as per our Public Notice Number 2 of 15 January 2019, none of our members of staff are on strike or any so...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:49hrs | 3289 | by Staff reporter
Zimra officer charged with criminal abuse of office
A Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer at Forbes Border Post in Mutare has appeared in court on criminal abuse of office charges after she facilitated the importation of unchecked goods from Moz...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 22:56hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Firemen struggled to put out Beitbridge Border Post fire
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have started investigating the cause of a fire which razed down a State warehouse and property worth thousands of dollars at the port of entry yesterday. ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:43hrs | 1862 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Fire guts ZIMRA warehouse in Beitbridge
A ZIMRA warehouse caught fire this Tuesday morning destroying property whose value is yet to be ascertained though speculated to be running into millions.The building houses goods seized from ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 10:27hrs | 5396 | by Staff reporter
Trade deficit widens
ZIMBABWE recorded a trade deficit of $2,3 billion in the period between February and December 2018, latest trade data has shown.Figures released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zim...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:39hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
One-stop border posts project gains traction
GOVERNMENT is targeting to implement the one-stop border post concept at all of the country's ports of entry within the next five years to enhance customs clearances and trade facilitation, an officia...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:25hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Beitbridge border up in flames
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority warehouse located at Beitbridge border post on Tuesday went up in flames. This is not the first time th...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 06:51hrs | 19084 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra to set up virtual border posts
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is targeting to establish virtual border posts where travellers and their cargo will be cleared in less than five minutes.This was said by Zimra Commissi...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:08hrs | 839 | by Staff reportet
SMEs engage BCC after lootings
SMALL to Medium enterprises in Bulawayo who were affected by the violent demonstrations that rocked the country two weeks ago have approached the city council seeking new sites to operate from after t...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 12:16hrs | 1900 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube's mobile transfer tax injects $177 million in three months
THE 2 percent mobile transfer tax introduced by government late last year has injected $177 million into the economy, the country's tax collector has revealed.According to the Zimbabwe Revenue...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 16:55hrs | 1891 | by newzimbabwe
Ginimbi passport application dismissed
Controversial businessman and socialite Genius Ginimbi Kadungure's application for temporary release of passport was yesterday dismissed by a Harare magistrate.The application was dismissed by...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 16:46hrs | 3097 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax rakes in millions
Zimbabwe's tax agency collected $177,27 million from the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT) last year boosted by a review of the charge to 2 percent for electronic transactions in October as gove...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:37hrs | 4323 | by Staff reporter
Zimra surpasses FY18 revenue target by 17,7%
Zimbabwe's net revenue collections for the full year to December amounted to $5, 06 billion surpassing its target by about 18% as collections surged in the last quarter due to the 2% tax on electronic...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:29hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
ZRP auctions 200 bales of clothes
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) will on Wednesday auction 200 bales of clothes, shoes and other items in Graniteside, Harare.According to a notice issued by KM Auctions (Private) Limited, t...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:46hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Pasi seeks removal from remand
FORMER Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, has filed a notice before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Chitumbura, seeking r...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:44hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
SA Hawks arrest car thief, smuggling suspect
THE Hawks have arrested a second suspect believed to be part of a racket stealing vehicles from South Africa and smuggling them to other countries via Zimbabwe. It is understood that most of the stole...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:15hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Cry my beloved Zimbabwe . . . as country is closed for business
Once open for business, Zimbabwe is closed for business.Shops are closed, people are scared and companies are closing just as is the democratic space that President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened u...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:25hrs | 2151 | by Staff rpeorter
Internet shutdown costs govt millions of dollars
THE government lost millions of dollars through delayed revenue inflows due to the slow processing of imports and exports after the switching off internet services countrywide.Government threw...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:42hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Man tries to pay duty with fake US$ notes
A 25-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been arrested at Beitbridge Border Post for attempting to pay duty using fake United States dollar notes. Givemore Tshuma of Nketa suburb, who was supposed ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:22hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Zimra in talks with workers representatives
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is enmeshed in talks with workers representatives to locate lasting solutions to challenges faced by employees, who claim they are now struggling to make ends me...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:17hrs | 3772 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo diaper plant launch hits snag
BULAWAYO's first diaper manufacturing project, which is being developed at a cost of more than $2 million, is failing to take off due to foreign currency shortages to import critical raw materials. ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:12hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
PUBLIC NOTICE: ZIMRA remains open for business
NOTICE TO ALL OUR VALUED CLIENTSPUBLIC NOTICE ON SOCIAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA CLAIMS THAT ZIMRAEMPLOYEES ARE ON STRIKEContrary to reports th...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 12:56hrs | 608 | by ZIMRA
ZIMRA workers engage in strike
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority and Allied Workers Trade Union (ZIMRATU) have announced that their workers will not be attending work from Monday 14 January.In a letter to the Commissioner Gene...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2668 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Plain clothes officials at Beitbridge expose border post to criminals
ADRIAN Ndhlovu (not his real name) is stranded after his car, a 2018 Toyota D4D twin cab on hire purchased in South Africa, has been placed under seizure by the Customs and Excise Department.H...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:23hrs | 3641 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A presidency under siege, is there a way out?
“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is now” - African ProverbIt’s only been six months since Zimbabwe held its ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 04:25hrs | 12833 | by Lloyd Msipa
Former parastatal bosses face criminal abuse charges trial
FORMER bosses of Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), National Social Security Authority (NSSA) and City of Harare, who are separately accused of criminal abuse of office, were yesterday given trial da...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:22hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Full fuel audit required to explain demand
The extraordinarily sharp increase in fuel consumption between June and November last year we report on today and the mess witnessed with fuel queues cry out for detailed audits by the Reserve Bank of...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:34hrs | 270 | by Staf reporter
What should happen now in Zimbabwe?
The problem with every dictator is arrogance and cowardice. They all have fallen after having been factually and truthfully warned and have even been advised on what to do to avoid embarassment and ca...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:18hrs | 944 | by Clement Moyo
Drug trafficking in Zimbabwe on the rise
Drug trafficking in Zimbabwe has risen as criminal networks groom mules to smuggle packets of hard drugs into the country, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (Mcaz) and ZRP CID drugs and narc...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:08hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe duped $3,5 billion
Government has been prejudiced in excess of $3,5 billion by company directors who shut-down their firms in order to avoid payment of taxes only to re-establish themselves under different trading names...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:59hrs | 7380 | by Staff reporter
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