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Zimra introduces automated systems to curb corruption
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has introduced automated systems as some of the country's entry points in efforts to curb corruption which is said to be rampant at the country's borders....Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:47hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Zacc goes after Zimra
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday said it was going after officials at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, who it accuses of fuelling corruption at the borders.The anti-graf...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:27hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
ZACC investigates border corruption
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has launched investigations on Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials and security forces at the borders following the recent interception of nine buses f...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
Senior cop, bogus ZACC commissioners arrested
The corrupt in their search for new openings are now impersonating officers of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), as many doors close, with a syndicate of criminals that includes a servin...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:22hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Zimra defends blitz on improperly imported vehicles
The blitz on improperly imported vehicles carried by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is in line with the law and anyone who feels disadvantaged is free to seek redress.The intervention ...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:27hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Zimra gridlocks ground companies
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s e-filing system has been overwhelmed since December last year, triggering serious gridlocks for thousands of companies attempting to file their tax returns....Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:55hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Zimra gridlocks ground companies
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s e-filing system has been overwhelmed since December last year, triggering serious gridlocks for thousands of companies attempting to file their tax returns....Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:44hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Motorists hit out at Zimra blitz
Some Harare motorists have criticised the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) for impounding their vehicles in a blitz targeting cars that were undervalued allegedly to evade paying the requisite impor...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:36hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Deputy mayor in ‘smuggling' storm
CHITUNGWIZA deputy mayor Kiven Mutimbanyoka's business has been placed under investigation by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) following allegations that he smuggled fruits, vegetables and groce...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:28hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Truckers block traffic at Limpopo bridge
COMMERCIAL traffic going into South Africa and Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge border post was yesterday delayed by more than four hours after truck drivers staged a sit-in at the New Limpopo Bridge d...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimra pounces on tax evaders, recovers US$8m
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has said it has completed investigations of 142 cases of tax evasion and recovered over $750 000 and US$8 million since the beginning of the year.This wa...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cross-border buses: smuggling conduits
Zimbabwe could be losing millions in potential revenue through smuggling perpetuated by connected bus crews who have devised survival tactics in the face of the existing ban in cross-border travel. ...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimra must retain portion of collected revenue'
TREASURY has been urged to give the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) powers to retain a portion of the revenue it collects in order to ensure it capacitates itself to improve service delivery....Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive corruption by Zimra officers
There is a massive corruption by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority officers currently stationed at Maitengwe Border Post in Plumtree with sources claiming th...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 14:00hrs | 31 | by Shelton Muchena in Plumtree
Zimra executives in US$585m tax evasion corruption scam
CORRUPTION skeletons involving a series of multi-billion-dollar tax evasion scandals are tumbling out of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) cupboard amid a new corruption scam involving Chinese di...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
How whistle-blowers are gaming the Zimra system
WHILE the gazetting of a statutory instrument on whistle-blowers who help sniff out tax evaders was seen as a useful move in promoting accountability, recent events and investigations have shown that ...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra launches witch-hunt
TOP Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) executives are panicking over recent revelations by The NewsHawks of corruption involving the tax collector's multi-million-dollar whistle-blowing fund as they s...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:59hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million dollar whistleblowing corruption scandal rocks Zimra
MASSIVE corruption - which has dragged on for years - is rocking the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s multi-million-dollar whistle-blower fund which the tax collector's senior officials are lootin...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Ministry explains SI89 - Importation of used cars that are more than 10 years old
PRESS STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 89 OF 20211. Following the promulgation of Statutory Instrument 89 of 2...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 11:24hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra engulfed in corruption storm over whistle-blowers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), which operates a whistleblower facility in a bid to eradicate tax fraud and duty evasion, is caught in a damaging storm of corruption in which its senior office...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:24hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Massive bloc thrusts Zimra under spotlight
GOVERNMENT says the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) must be prepared to play a crucial role in facilitating the shipment of bigger cargo volumes as regional trade grows under the African Continenta...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Border officials granted bail
A senior Government official and a police officer deployed at Beitbridge Border Post who were arrested on Christmas Day on corruption charges by a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) crack team...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Touts, conmen, pickpockets, prostitutes take over Beitbridge border
CHAOS continues at the Beitbrigde Border Post with touts, conmen, pickpockets and prostitutes having a field day.Despite the chaos, the department of Customs and Excise yesterday said it was o...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two more Zimra officials up for abuse of office
Two more Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials at Beitbridge Border Post have been arrested as Government intensifies crackdown on rent-seeking activities at the border.Nelson Chinguwo ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 23:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
2 Zimra officials up for abuse of office
The police have arrested two more Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials deployed at Beitbridge Border Post, as the Government intensifies its crack down on rent-seeking activities at the border...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 Zimra officials in court for 'smuggling' fuel
THREE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials stationed at Beitbridge Border post have been arrested for allegedly facilitating the smuggling of 176 000 litres of unleaded petrol from South Afric...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra urges clients to use e-services
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday urged its clients to utilise e-services as the authority is fighting the spread of COVID-19 and to reduce overcrowding and time spent at border posts....Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra officials test positive to Covid-19 at Beitbridge border
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is streamlining operation at Beitbridge where eight of its employees tested positive for Covid-19.The tests are part of strict and tight health managemen...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 10:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
My experience as a returning resident
After spending 4 years in Namibia it was time to go back to my country Zimbabwe at the end of 2020. I announced the news to friends. Some disapproved my decision to return home while others encouraged...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:19hrs | 2 | by Etiwel Mutero
Zimbabweans stranded at Beitbridge
The refusal by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) staff at Beitbridge to handle bus passengers yesterday saw 366 Zimbabweans returning from South Africa in 12 buses stranded at Beitbridge Border Post,...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matanga accused of shady car deals, bribery
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has been accused of being involved in a raft of corrupt activities including inflating prices of police vehicles, flouting tender processes; and bribing Spec...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Scanners cause border delays
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has since July been forced to manually enforce customs regulations on commercial imports coming into the country through Beitbridge following a major breakdown o...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman (24) found with smuggled 2kg drugs
A WOMAN from Bulawayo and her boyfriend have been arrested for possessing 2kg of crystal methamphetamine, a dangerous drug in the same class as cocaine, worth more than $120 000 which was smuggled fro...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | 531 | by Staff Reporter
Smuggling: the new corruption frontier in Zimbabwe
As the Zimbabwean economy rapidly slides into hyperinflation induced recession, the levels of smuggling at the country's border posts has reached alarming levels. Cross border traders, foreign nationa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Ginimbi's passport temporarily released
SOCIALITE and businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, who is on remand over fraud, tax evasion and money-laundering charges involving over $3,5 million, was yesterday granted a repri...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers assault police informant
A POLICE informant from Bulawayo was allegedly assaulted by soldiers manning the Plumtree border post for exposing smuggling syndicates involving politicians, security agents and Zimbabwe Revenue Auth...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3382 | by Staff reporter
Zimra tampered with Prophet Magaya's computers
Walter Magaya's Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministry, which is facing charges of failing to declare sales tax, yesterday accused the Zimbabwe Revenue's Authority (Zimra) of tampering with...Published: 10 May 2019 at 19:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya fails to repay $23 million loan
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya and his wife, Tendai, have been taken to the High Court for failure to repay a US$23 million loan to Homelink Finance (Private) ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra cracks down on tax avoidance
Zimbabwe's tax agency is cracking down on tax avoidance in both the public and private sector via underhand deals to try and recoup millions in lost State income, the head of the Zimbabwe Revenue Auth...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:31hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official mauled by dogs at Chinese factory
A ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) official was on Wednesday mauled by dogs at a Chinese-owned warehouse in Southerton during an operation to smoke out smuggling of goods into the country.Ac...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus impounded over smuggling
A web of corrupt officials involving Zimra, Immigration and security personnel at Forbes Border Post in Mutare is under investigation after a bus carrying more than 400 packs smuggled Coca Cola drinks...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:32hrs | 6256 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt donates seized second hand clothes to Zanu-PF supporters
THE government has parceled out loads of goods seized by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) to villagers in Uzumba Maramba-Pfungwe (UMP), an area that has consistently given Zanu-PF the biggest vo...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Impounded smuggled goods overwhelm Zimra
ZIMRA is overwhelmed by impounded smuggled goods that are piling and taking up space at three warehouses in Mutare.Zimra regional manager Mr Innocent Chikuni told heads of Government departmen...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man tries to pay duty with fake US$ 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 | 521 | by Staff reporter
Officials arrested for failing lifestyle audit
Police have arrested two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority employees after they failed a lifestyle audit initiated by the Special Prosecuting Unit in the Office of the President and Cabinet.After com...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 09:02hrs | 2720 | by Staff reporter
Temporary importation for visitors' vehicles
The importation and regulation of such vehicles is provided for in terms of the Customs and Excise Act, Section 124 as read with the Customs and Excise (General) Regulations, SI 154 of 2001, as amende...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 04:43hrs | | by zimra
Clearing agent sues Zimra
A LOCAL clearing company, Morris and Charts Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, has taken the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to court after the tax agency allegedly suspended the firm's account on allegations ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos erupts at Beitbridge over forex duty
There was confusion at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday with luxury vehicle importers refusing to pay import duty in foreign currency in line with the new Government regulations as proposed by the Fin...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex duty: Car importers stuck at Beitbridge
There was confusion at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday, with luxury vehicle importers refusing to pay excise duty in foreign currency in line with the new regulations announced by Finance and Economi...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:41hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt targets rich, famous
The country's rich and famous are quaking in their boots after the Zimra launched a massive crackdown on tax evaders, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government clamps down on rampant corrupt activi...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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