We Are Not To Blame: Zimra Responds To Companies On Looters List

Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) chairperson Willia Bonyongwe has responded to claims by companies that the shutdown of the tax regulator’s clearance system is the reason why most companies were wrongly listed as externalisers.

The shutdown saw Zimra spending the whole of January processing tax returns and acquittals manually as well as giving out CDI forms.Said Bonyongwe:

They can’t really blame Zimra for that. I think the Zimra system was down for just a month and that is a list which is 90 days. It took 90 days to compile that list but if you are going to be in export, you have to make sure that the moment the money or the goods come in, you must acquit them and you need to have a person who does that very diligently, otherwise you are going to run into problems. It’s a back office function but a very important function

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