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Guard shoots self 3 times in suicide
A SECURITY guard employed by a Bulawayo company to man the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) offices in the city centre died yesterday after he shot himself three times in a suspected case of suicide...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1101 | by Staff reporter
MDC tribalists' plans exposed
It has come to our attention that the recently elected MDC-A Bulawayo leadership which is predominantly Shona, and stand accused of bribing their way up on tribal grounds is fully behind Kambarami in ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:40hrs | 1714 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Unexplained wealth orders here to stay
THE proposed introduction of a free-standing procedure which compels an individual to explain the source of his wealth is a radical development in English law. For instance, the human rights and polit...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 355 | by Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu
Govt urged to expedite one-stop border concept at Beitbridge
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development has challenged Government to expedite the implementation of the One Stop Border Post (OSPB) concept at Beitbridge to e...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:18hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Zimra on course to surpass $4,8 billion target
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is well on course to surpass its half year revenue collection target with the final report for the period set for release at the end of this month, board chairpe...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:33hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Tax scam costs Govt billions
Some players in the garment-making sector are allegedly skimming the Government of billions of dollars in potential tax revenue and suffocating downstream textile industries by abusing a special cloth...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Acting President Mohadi appeals to businesses on prices
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has appealed to local businesses to support the Government's economic realignment measures through implementing a fair pricing model to avoid causing unnecessary suffering ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Ministry fails to account for donations
THE Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare has failed to account for or distribute goods donated by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) which are reportedly lying idle and losing val...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to engage ZNA over border post landmines
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it will seek the intervention of the Zimbabwe National Army to assess Forbes Border Post for possible landmines to enable authorities to access an are...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:52hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Zimra looking for 54 sealing officers
Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons to fill the following fixed-term post that has arisen within the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA). SEALING OFFICERS [54 POSITIONS] ...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 23:25hrs | 7078 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya unscathed after 6 months of legal trouble
WHEN pictures and videos of Prophet Walter Magaya's burning Yadah Hotel surfaced on Thursday night and early Friday morning, the raging ball of flame sitting on top of the exclusive piece of property ...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:10hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
New Bill to question unexplained wealth gazetted
Law enforcement agents will now have powers to question people living flamboyant and swish life from inexplicable sources of income as the Government moves in to curb corruption, money laundering and ...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | 2111 | by Staff reporter
Government debts weigh on TelOne
State owned fixed telecommunications giant TelOne says unpaid Government debts amounting to $93 million, 62 percent of total debt, are largely the reason it has struggled to meet obligations to critic...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Mthuli Ncube's magic now working?
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube's prophecy that prices of basic goods in terms of RTGS$ were, in fact, going down looks like is coming to pass.Professor Ncube in June said that reforms whic...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 21:52hrs | 18627 | by Staff reporter
Zimra in a fix as uncertainty engulfs tax compliance
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has plunged into turmoil after the introduction of new monetary and fiscal measures created compliance headache. Speaking at the Institute of Chartered A...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:12hrs | 3091 | by Staff reporter
Accident sells out mobile phone smuggler
A CELLPHONE smuggler was on Monday sentenced to six months behind bars after a car accident sold him out.Chrispen Mutsonhi (27) from Mutare pleaded guilty to the charges before magistrate Tend...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2164 | by Staff reporter
Who is going to trust Zimbabwe with aid and credit lines?
If we are going to be so irresponsible, so reckless, so unaccountable, so extravagant and so unprincipled in handling our meagre resources, who is going to trust us with aid and credit lines? If you w...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 10:21hrs | 1489 | by Clemen Moyo
Govt, parastatals owe TelOne $93m in unpaid bills
Telone trimmed its debtors' book by 7% from $162 million in 2017 to $151 million in 2018, but is still struggling to recover debts owed by government departments and parastatals totalling $93 million ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:39hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Time for concrete action to end period poverty
There seems to be an erroneous feeling of respite amongst some menstrual health activists and stakeholders regarding the removal of duty and VAT on selected imported sanitary wear products by governme...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 446 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Govt institutions doing havoc to our finances and resources
If we are going to be so irresponsible, so reckless, so unaccountable, so extravagent and so unprincipled in handling our meagre resources, who is going to trust us with aid and credit lines? If you w...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:42hrs | 560 | by Clemen Moyo
Graft: Whistleblowers need full legal protection
On June 17, 2019, one of the lead stories in The Herald was "President rescues ZESA whistleblowers". The article was in reference to the well-intended intervention by President Mnangagwa on th...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 159 | by Willard T. Mugadza
Zimra collects $230m in Q1 at Beitbridge
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has recorded a relative increase in revenue levied on commercial cargo which passes through Beitbridge Border Post in the first quarter of the year in comparison...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa developing algorithmic surveillance system to spy on Zimbabweans
In a bid to attain political omnipresence and omniscience against unsuspecting citizens, the Zimbabwe government is reportedly working on a sophisticated algorithmic super surveillance system, said to...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 08:37hrs | 8294 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Zimra expects to surpass ZWL$5bn revenue target
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says gross collections have so far reached ZWL$4,96 billion and the tax collector expects to surpass ZWL$5 billion by the end of June.Without any direct ...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:25hrs | 352 | 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 | 3696 | by Victor Bhoroma
Resolving Zimbabwean challenges in transfer pricing
A lot of debate about taxation in most developing countries is evolving on how to ease revenue leakages through offshore tax havens. But there is another hot issue called transfer pricing which develo...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:54hrs | 356 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
Fuel dealers cornered
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has cornered fuel dealers who used to divert the product to the black market by adopting the Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS) which tracks fuel tankers to their i...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:18hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's speech to AfDB boards of governors - Fulltext
Speech by the minister of finance and economic development, Hon. Prof. Mthuli Ncube during the 2019 annual meetings of the boards of governors of the African Development Bank Group: Malabo, Republic o...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:03hrs | 1007 | by Mthuli NCube
Electronic cargo tracking system comes alive
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) on Friday put into operation the electronic cargo tracking system (ECTS), introduced as a pilot project in 2017, as it moves to plug revenue leakages thr...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube targets price stabilisation
Government's fiscal consolidation measures and other initiatives introduced into Zimbabwe's economic programmes should see prices of goods starting to drop from next month, Finance and Economic Develo...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
Prices to start falling next month, claims Mthuli Ncube
Government's fiscal consolidation measures and other initiatives introduced into Zimbabwe's economic programmes should see prices of goods starting to drop from next month, Finance and Economic Develo...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 17:32hrs | 4227 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya's PHD to stand trial for tax evasion
Financial statements retrieved from Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries' computers by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) are admissible evidence in the $28 million tax evasion case and ...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:51hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena imports US$210k Lamborghini
Zanu-PF MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena has taken delivery of a US$210,000 supercar.Emphasising the gulf between Zimbabwe's impoverished masses and a politically-connected elite, the Gokwe Nembudzi...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | 5058 | by ZimLive
Hungry lions hoovering around to devour Nyaminyami RDC response
I am Mwiimpu Hanjeleha of Monze, Zambia. I read the above story in your news online. I have been serving in the NGOs sector in that district. The persons being attacked in that piece I know them total...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1618 | by Mwiimpu Hanjeleha
Chamisa's ZCTU confronts RBZ in currency battle
WORKERS have threatened to take their war to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for unilaterally declaring a new currency, the RTGS dollar, effectively eroding the value of their salaries that were pe...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:24hrs | 5044 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to undertake employee audit
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has moved to undertake an employee audit to rationalise and optimise its staff in line with the organisation's 2019-2023 strategic plan. The audit may result in ...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget surplus hits $500m
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube's austerity measures are paying dividends with respect to Government finances, once in shambles due to successive budget deficits, with...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2143 | by Staff reporter
Chaos in Beitbridge after system collapse
SCORES of travellers between South Africa and Zimbabwe were stranded at Beitbridge yesterday when a systems failure hit the South African immigration office affecting biometric processing of arrivals ...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:44hrs | 3078 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling trucker fined $3 000
A 45-year-old trucker who was arrested at Beitbridge Border Post last week while smuggling 5 000 IBR roofing sheets, two wardrobes and 18 salon chairs all worth R447 700 from South Africa has been fin...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:04hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips Zimra as 11 top managers are fired
FEAR has gripped Zimbabwe's revenue collection arm of government amid reports of ongoing purges which are said to be part of a clean-up campaign to rid the country's tax collector of rampant corruptio...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 20:26hrs | 6322 | by Staff reporter
Probe unearths Zesa rot
SHOCKING revelations of deep-seated rot and corporate malfeasance have been unearthed at the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa), where millions of United States dollars were siphoned through...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:15hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
'Smith was better than Mnangagwa' says Lumumba
Self-styled Communications strategist William Mutumanje says the Ian Smith's Rhodesian government was better that than the current Emmerson Mnangagwa administration in terms of caring for its young pe...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:28hrs | 7673 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government still open for negotiations with health sector
Government is still working hard to address challenges facing employees in the health sector despite concerns by worker representatives at the pace at which the State was moving, the Health Service Bo...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:27hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Zimra dollarises border charges
Government has made sweeping changes to its warehousing and physical examinations charges at Beitbridge Border Post with all foreign-registered vehicles now being levied in hard currency.Previ...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:47hrs | 6333 | by Staff reporter
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 | 669 | by Staff reporter
Acie Lumumba warns Mnangagwa
Self-styled communications strategist William Mutumanje has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that if he does not fire his advisors the people will fire him. Warned Mutumanje, "I was really ...Published: 21 May 2019 at 15:14hrs | 32525 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra throws lifeline to civil servants
Government has thrown a lifeline to its restive workers by operationalising a law that will ensure that those with a minimum 10 years in service can import vehicles duty-free, a week after the workers...Published: 21 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | 10533 | 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 | 3370 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should fully liberalize the petroleum industry
It has become apparent that the Zimbabwean government is failing to sustain its fuel subsidy in the economy due to foreign currency shortages. The rationale for such a subsidy has been to bring price ...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:23hrs | 569 | by Victor Bhoroma
US diplomat smuggled guns into Zimbabwe
A United States diplomat recently raised security concerns after he smuggled two rifles and two shotguns into the country in 2016, only to declare the weapons in February 2019, about a month before le...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
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