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Zimbabwe's fee cuts are welcome

Zimbabwe's recent announcement of sweeping reductions to transport?related fees and levies - halving parking, clamping and towing fines, slashing the cost of vehicle number plates from US$500 to US$50, and repealing a US$23,000 transit fue…

Published: 13 Sep 2025 at 16:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimra goes after public transport operators

The government of Zimbabwe is desperate to raise money for the Fiscus. Public transport operators will no longer be able to buy Insurance unless they can prove they are Tax Compliant.The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has announced a n…

Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 19:35hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo

Tax and Statistics: Tax benefits to forming a Sole Proprietorship

During the peak of the global pandemic in April 2020, former U.S. President Trump with the assistance of the Department of Treasury and the Small Business Admin

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff Writer

Paltry taxes cripple recovery

SHOCKING evidence of tax leakages hogged the limelight this week, with Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube saying the informal sector, which makes up 70% of Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP), was remitting less tha…

Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Please Mthuli, tax these bastards!

"The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised."Hallelujah!A story is often told of how Charles Mungoshi was once invited for a book reading of his Shona novel "Makunun'unu Maodzamoyo" at Rakodzi High Schoo…

Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus

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. Firstly, Zimbabwe is not an attractive cou…

Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Lindsay H Cook

Is Tobin tax regime helpful?

Against the backdrop of the ongoing debate and rhetoric about the recently proposed 2% transaction tax which was announced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, ostensibly to widen Zimbabwe's tax base.This article seeks to trace the origins of…

Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu

Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax still illegal

At the beginning of this month the Minister of Finance and Economic Development announced an increase in the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax [i.e. the tax on electronic money transfers] from five cents per transaction to two cents per dol…

Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 19:15hrs | | by Veritas

We told you so!

SOMETIMES it's nice to be right, that does not often happen, but in this case I am sorry that those of us who had said we are headed for trouble, were right.I am referring to the first statement by our new super star Minister of Finance Mt…

Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Eddie Cross

How many times do you tax me?

It's disheartening to believe that when someone's salary is deposited into his bank account, the bank will as usual tell me that they do not have cash. I am left with no alternative than to transfer the money to my ecocash account. I am ta…

Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 19:04hrs | | by Isaac Nkomah

Nothing wrong in principle with 2% electronic transfer tax

"In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," observed presciently Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the founding fathers of the United States, who was both a philomath - a seeker of knowledge and facts; a…

Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 08:14hrs | | by Conway Tutani

Mthuli Ncube's 'painful' revenue masterstroke

AS Zimbabwe focuses on transforming the economy and broadening the job market, it is important for every citizen to appreciate the desperate need for generating critical funding to oil the development agenda. The situation in which 90 perc…

Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu

Tax amnesty 2018 in respect of motor vehicles

IN an effort to encourage our valued clients to regularise their tax obligations, the Government has, through the Finance Act No. 1 of 2018 published on 15 March 2018, made provisions for granting of a tax amnesty to persons on application…

Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by zimra

Zimbabwe Ministers, MPs must bank their money and pay tax

Editor, If Zimbabwe is to revive its economy which has/had taken a nose dive, then every citizen in Zimbabwe or not domicile in Zimbabwe must play a pivotal role in helping the economy to appreciate. It does not matter your social standing…

Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 08:26hrs | | by Njabulo

Zimbabweans now taxed to death

President Robert Mugabe's cash-strapped government is going for broke - slapping long-suffering poor Zimbabweans with a raft of new taxes in its desperate effor

Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 17:29hrs | | by John Kachembere

Mthwakazi Republic Party condemns the gross wastage of tax payers money

Mthwakazi Republic Party condemns with strongest words possible the gross wastage of state resources used to conduct the devilish bash in Matobo. We further put it on record that conducting a function to celebrate the birthday of Robert Mu…

Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 21:38hrs | | by Hloniphani Ncube

Downtown shops must pay tax

The trend in town is that unless one wants to buy from a supermarket, he has to be armed with a credit card only east of Julius Nyerere Way. Tradition has it that downtown shops trade only in hard cash despite the widespread use of plastic…

Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 14:02hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa

Chinamasa angers Biti over blacks don't pay tax jibe

FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa has come under attack this Friday for telling parliament that black people have no culture of&nbsp; paying tax.&nbsp;That hab

Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Alice Dube

Tax Clearance Certificates

What is a Tax Clearance Certificate?A tax clearance certificate is a document that is issued by the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to a person liable to pay tax under any of the Acts administered by the Zimb…

Published: 16 May 2013 at 04:39hrs | | by zimra

Residence basis of taxation: what to expect from the new Income Tax Act

The Income Tax Act (Chapter 23:06) which was first enacted in 1967 is to be replaced by a new Income Tax Act (Chapter 23:13) with effect from 1 January 2014. In this regard, Income Tax Bill, 2012 was gazetted on 30 November 2012. The need …

Published: 07 Mar 2013 at 11:33hrs | | by Max Mangoro is a Partner at Ernst & Young in the Tax Advisory Service Line

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