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FreeZim wins t-shirts wrangle with ZRP
THE High Court has ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga to immediately release 50 000 campaign T-shirts which were seized from an opposition political party by police at Beitbridge Borde...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
No load shedding, says Zesa
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) says there will not be any load shedding this winter.Speaking on the sidelines of a symposium held in Gweru, Zesa subsidiary, Zimbabwe Transmis...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:03hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe loses millions to smuggling syndicates
THE government could be losing millions of dollars in revenue via its north-eastern port of entry at Forbes Border Post due to under-declaration and false classification of goods by importers to evade...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:42hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Economic growth under our noses: ED is taking us in the right direction
Facts are rigid things. They stick and are very hard to delete or wipe out. No amount of debating or distorting can undermine pure hard facts. That is why it is so important to look...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 18:51hrs | 1160 | by Mike, Harare
Zimra boss exposes govt rot
The newly-appointed commissioner-general of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has blew the whistle on civil servants from the other arms of government who are working in cahoots to deprive the fi...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 14:21hrs | 3231 | by Staff reporter
Quick reforms pushing Zimbabwe's GDP
Economists and captains of the industry have attributed the country's openness to do business as the major factor in increasing the country's Gross Domestic Product.This comes after the World ...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:22hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
5 bust with 150 smuggled bales of 2nd hand clothes
A suspected cartel of five people was brought before Chiredzi magistrate Geraldine Mutsotso last week charged with smuggling 150 bales of second-hand clothes from Mozambique into Chiredzi.Repr...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 16:26hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
I am sorry Mr Chamisa, but my vote isn't yours
To begin with, I must applaud the MDC Alliance for coming up with a splendid document.It does take some effort and concern and obviously all the issues at the heart of the Zimbabwean are hard ...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:40hrs | 1104 | by Radar
Zanu-PF, Zimra should come clean on imports duty
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) must come clean on reports that the ruling Zanu-PF is not paying import duty for its campaign vehicles and other materials.Zimra commissioner-general, Fa...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | 288 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa arm-twists Zimra on duty
ZANU-PF campaign material worth millions of dollars is being imported into Zimbabwe without paying duty at a time the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is struggling to meet its collection targets an...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 15:19hrs | 1620 | by Staff reporter
Zimra boss quizzed over 'smuggled' Zanu-PF campaign material
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general, Faith Mazani was yesterday grilled by MDC-T Chitungwiza North legislator, Godfrey Sithole, who demanded to know if Zanu-PF had paid import duty...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to curb double taxation
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it is in the process of negotiating agreements with the country's trading patners to curb the issue of double taxation.Speaking at the official open...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Edgars to resume exports
GIANT clothing manufacturer and retailer, Edgars Group, says it will soon resume garments and clothing exports into the region.In an interview after the ZimTrade/Zimra stakeholder engagement s...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Let's all rally behind ZANU-PF in the next election
With two months left before this year's harmonised elections take place, the electorate should be encouraged to make the right decision and vote for a party that has policies that are people oriented,...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 08:52hrs | 992 | by Peacemaker Zano
Zimra accused of stifling export growth
Delays at border posts have seen Bulawayo companies accusing the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) of being an impediment to exports growth, as they say this has seen them losing business worth milli...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:37hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs more civil servants - Mukupe
Deputy Minister of Finance Terence Mukupe has said Zimbabwe needs more civil servants to be able to be able to deliver to the citizens."What Zimbabwe needs is an increase in the number of civi...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | 910 | by Stephen Jakes
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 27454 | by WikiLeaks
Zimbabwe targets tax cuts for SMEs
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) plans to cut taxes for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) as part of efforts to help them formalise their operations through compliance.A working paper t...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 08:20hrs | 355 | by Staff Reporter
Axe looms over Zimra boss
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board chairperson William Bonyongwe's stay at the tax collector could be coming to an end amid indications government is unlikely to renew her contract when it expir...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:59hrs | 2432 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official arrested over fake TIP
A ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) official is in trouble after he issued a fake temporary import permit (TIP) for an impounded South Africa-registered vehicle, which belonged to Hwange company secr...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:19hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Zimra officer in court
A Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer appeared in court yesterday facing abuse of office charges after he generated a fake vehicle permit. Kennedi Ganyiwa (57) appeared before Harare ma...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:08hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official arrested for accepting R50 bribe
An official from the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) stationed at Beitbridge Border Post was arrested for allegedly receiving a R50 bribe from a cross-border trader.The official, Shingirira...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:05hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Zimbabwe's mining sector illicit financial flows
Soon after his inauguration the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that he has a list of individuals and corporates that has been externalizing money and assets and granted them a thre...Published: 31 May 2018 at 12:00hrs | 1817 | by Davison Kaiyo
Zimra targets foreign companies evading tax
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general, Faith Mazani has approached President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance and Economic Development minister Patrick Chinamasa for help to get foreig...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:27hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Banks discontinue manual RTGS payments
A NUMBER of financial institutions in Zimbabwe have discontinued manual real-time gross settlement (RTGS) payments, as they go paperless, banking on increasing their efficiencies.Some of these...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:26hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere should wake up and smell the coffee
Reading the article titled ,"Kasukuwere heading back home" l just realized how some people are detached from reality.Here is a man who was part of the inner circle of high ranking Zanu pf officials no...Published: 21 May 2018 at 20:04hrs | 4701 | by AT Kadada
SMEs transition key in uplifting the Zimbabwean Economy
The transition of SMEs to big business or corporates is pivotal in any economy in the world. It is actually the relative measure of how well an economy is performing as SMEs are the seed-bed of busine...Published: 18 May 2018 at 17:51hrs | 355 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe losing the product counterfeit war
The unchecked growth of counterfeit (fake) products dumped in the Zimbabwean market has reached alarming levels. Although the country's official import bill shows that imports into the country have sl...Published: 18 May 2018 at 17:38hrs | 565 | by Victor Bhoroma
Public officials should fight corruption
Corruption can be defined as the misuse of public power for private benefit, involving underhand deals such as misappropriate of public funds.The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has vowed t...Published: 18 May 2018 at 16:02hrs | 149 | by Chido Chikuni
Zimra urges voluntary tax compliance
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has called on businesses to embrace voluntary tax compliance saying levying penalties on defaulting clients is not an effective instrument.The private se...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Good news to confront the naysayers
As we begin a truly new era for Zimbabwe, I cannot fathom the vile negativity with which so many people still view the new dispensation.It appears as if people have very short memories. Not lo...Published: 15 May 2018 at 17:08hrs | 1013 | by Mike Tawanda
Fuel, booze, airtime boost Zimra excise duty
Fuel, beer and airtime were the largest contributors to excise duty collections for the month of April, as the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) surpassed its overall collection targets for the month...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:13hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Zimra surpasses April target
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it surpassed its gross revenue target for April 2018 by 9,81 percent to reach $361,88 million.Zimra acting corporate communications head Taungana Nd...Published: 15 May 2018 at 06:56hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco cash flows fail to improve liquidity
Foreign currency raised from this year's tobacco sales has not improved Zimbabwe's liquidity position because of the significant increase in the fuel import bill caused by a hike in international oil ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:55hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi duped in botched deal
A HARARE man has been arrested on charges of defrauding businessman and Goromonzi West Zanu PF parliamentary candidate, Energy Mutodi of $13 000 in a botched vehicle registration deal.Memory K...Published: 12 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2043 | by Staff Reporter
Change of vehicle ownership simplified
What is special excise duty?Special Excise Duty is charged in terms of Section 172 of the Customs and Excise Act (Chapter 23:02). It is a tax levied on sale, transfer or disposal of second hand ve...Published: 10 May 2018 at 06:56hrs | 2790 | by zimra
Zimbabwe losing millions in border scandal
GOVERNMENT is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue to syndicates abusing the immigrants' rebate facility (Returning Resident) to clandestinely import vehicles duty free across most ports of...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Zimra staffer in custody over $2m hit
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has apprehended one of the suspects who tried to transfer nearly $2 million from the taxman's fiscal accounts and cleared five officers who had been sent on forc...Published: 07 May 2018 at 06:48hrs | 1083 | by Staff reporter
9 Zimra officials on forced leave over $2m fraud
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has sent nine officials from its finance department on forced leave to pave way for investigations into an attempt to siphon nearly US$2 million from the tax man's fisca...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1293 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra delays NRZ locomotives over customs clearance
HARARE - National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ)'s rolling stock and locomotives unveiled by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on February 21 took over a month to be operationalised as they were held up in Bul...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 12:00hrs | 3016 | by Staff Reporter
Let's solve cash crisis together, says Mnangagwa
BULAWAYO - President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week all but admitted that his government has no solution to the cash crisis, pleading with business to boost productivity to generate the much-needed liqu...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 17:43hrs | 8057 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra system upgrade to be completed in June
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has acquired three top of the range servers in a bid to complete Automated System for Customs Data (Asycuda) systems upgrade by June this year to improve on effi...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 09:09hrs | 389 | by Staff Reporter
Bonyongwe causes storm at Zimra
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has been plunged into a fresh storm after it emerged that board chairperson Willia Bonyongwe ordered that their meetings should not be digitally recorded in what...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:49hrs | 1680 | by Staff reporter
Mavis Gumbo sued $1,2m over allowances
ASPIRING candidate for the Harare East National Assembly seat Mavis Gumbo is being sued over allowances she allegedly claimed fraudulently from her former employer Premier Service Medical Aid Society ...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:39hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Work on Gwayi-Shangani Dam project resumes
THE Gwayi-Shangani Dam Project in Matabeleland North province has resumed following requisite budgetary allocation, President Mnangagwa said yesterday.A major component of the National Matabel...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:33hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zimra discovers massive tax dodging
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has discovered massive tax dodging in the private sector, with a staggering 80 percent of the firms owing up to $4,2 billion as of March 2018. This has h...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 06:09hrs | 3723 | by Staff Reporter
Too many rivers to cross
As I was growing up the older generation would sing along, "Too many rivers too cross....". It did not make sense what it meant back then, but they enjoyed and loved the song. It was after all just a ...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | 195 | by AT Kadada
'Zimbabwe has leadership crisis, not financial'
ZIMBABWE has no financial crisis, but suffers from leadership and management crisis due to endemic corruption associated with the ruling Zanu-PF top officials, Coalition for Democrats (Code) leader El...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 08:18hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Bid to block Beitpridge border hits brick wall
A BID to block the Zimbabwe and South Africa border at Beitbridge by the International Cross-border Traders' Association (ICTA) yesterday hit a brick wall after their request to protest inside the bor...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1630 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimra surpasses target by 8%
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has recorded $1.1 billion first quarter 2018 gross revenue collections, above target by 8 percent and higher than $862 million recorded in the same period last y...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
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