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Zimra tightens remuneration monitoring to boost tax earnings

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HARARE — Zimbabwe’s revenue agency (Zimra) has tightened monitoring of individual remuneration, which has boosted revenue income for the first quarter

HARARE — Zimbabwe’s revenue agency (Zimra) has tightened monitoring of individual remuneration, which has boosted revenue income for the first quarter, according to its first quarter report.

Individual taxes were up 15% to $193,3 million, contributing 23% to overall revenue as the revenue agency exceeded its target by 2% in the first quarter to March 31, earning $834,6 million against the $817,9 million target.

“The performance of the revenue head (individual tax) can be attributed to follow-ups and audits that the authority carried out specifically on remuneration,” Zimra commissioner-general Gershom Pasi said in the report.

Value added tax (VAT) from both imports and domestic sales contributed the bulk of the earnings at 25% or $211,6 million.

Revenue from customs duty fell 20% from a year ago to $71,2 million.

Zimra says revenue of $120 million was lost from customs due to “lack of lines of credit . . . which negatively affected local industry’s capacity to finance importation of goods”.

Excise duty earnings dropped from 7% to $109,8 million due to a reduction in the consumption of beer, tobacco and other excisable goods.

Mining royalties’ revenue beat targets by 154% to $79,1 million, boosted by diamond earnings from two auctions held in the quarter. Corporate tax amounted to $104,7 million, carbon tax $8,3 million and capital gains tax $8,4 million.

Revenue from domestic dividends and interest fell 33% to $7 million while taxes from heads such as banking levy, presumptive tax was at $30,5 million. — The Source