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Government Imposes New Regulations To Combat Smuggling

3 weeks agoMon, 27 Jan 2025 20:18:11 GMT
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Government Imposes New Regulations To Combat Smuggling

The government has introduced new regulations that presume certain goods to be smuggled unless the owners can provide evidence of customs duty payment.

Under the Customs and Excise (Designated Deemed Smuggled Goods) Regulations, 2025, any manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or consumer found in possession of designated goods without proof of duty payment to ZIMRA will be considered to have smuggled the goods. They will be liable for the payment of the duty, along with any applicable penalties.

The designated goods include alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, cement, clothing, footwear, dairy products, diapers, electrical appliances, cables, ploughs and their parts, processed meat, rice, pasta, sugar, tyres, motor spares, washing powder, detergents, biscuits, sweets, and laundry soaps.

The regulation doesn’t target consumers but traders and manufacturers. It says:

For the avoidance of doubt, no customer shall be required to produce proof of payment of duty on imported goods purchased from a local manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer.

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It shall be the responsibility of the person who would have imported the goods or the manufacturer (in the case of such imported goods used as inputs into production), wholesaler or retailer of such imported goods to provide satisfactory documentary evidence to the extent that the goods have been properly imported.

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32 Comments

Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
Mthuli Ncube and your cabinet ,you have failed Zimbabwe !Impose duty of basic food stuff?Are you not ashamed?Why don't you create jobs and widen the tax base?What do you want the citizens to do?
bhekie · 2 weeks ago
that`s the only way we can raise revenue for the economy , remember rump trump paused aid on us and and over half of our health sector was financed by donors......... his right we need that monney
Sir African · 3 weeks ago
Some laws are stu.pid and people will just ignore then because they cant be enforced. If I buy bottle of soft drink I can only produce a reciept from ok and I cant ask ok if they ha e paid duty on their product. The onus to prove the goods have been smuggled lays with the state.
Richard Patrick · 2 weeks ago
But it is clearly stated that consumers will not be affected by this law.
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
The kicks of a dying horse........!
Bekithemba Ncube · 3 weeks ago
I think the tining is bad. This should havebeen imolemented duting the gvt of national uslnity when civil servants were getting at least $500. Now everyone is surving by trading. Besides , yhe country has never had a sound system that wo4lrks. Thats why ZIMRA officials are the richest people in thw country as tgey benefited from a corrupt system. We have been surviving in South african plfood products for decades. Dont tuen around and say these are poisonous. First fix the system and ensure it benefits everyone
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Analysis · 3 weeks ago
haaaa sometimes we may say vari rough but some foods are poisonous thats why maZimbabweans achifa fast hamutarise kuti makaiswei mukati zvimwe zvikafu zvikuiswa mamwe maIngredients anouraya slowly slowly.....plus besides vanhu vemuno vanorarama nemadhiri nekuti hapana Tanker rinopinda nemunaLimpopo rakatakura chinhu rinotopfuura nepaBoarder saka anofanira kubhadhara or respond to that iZIMRA and mamwe maGoods aya anenge abatwa paBoarder are being sold again neZIMRA to us asina approved saka stop this nonsense people we can't suffer imi beZIMRA murimi murikupinza maTanker paBoarder
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Chamisa · 3 weeks ago
Remember kuti tine ma corrupt people mu gvt, ndivo vanopinza zvinhu zvakawanda mahara, zvikabatwa chete panongorohwa fone munhu otonzi asiiwe
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🤣🤣🤣 nyobvo · 3 weeks ago
saka vana OK varikukundwa nesu vemaSmall retailers shops kuzadza kkkkkk varikudya mari avoo manje tese takuitawo mabusiness manga majaira kushandisa vana baba vedu muchivaita zvamunoda muchavapa zvimari zvisingashande manje takuzviitira manje manje maWholesale avhara aya anenge ama Boutique ehembe semamwe aiva maBank matozara kare 🤣🤣🤣🤣 uchivhara vamwe vachiuya vachivhura todyawo
Black Giant · 3 weeks ago
Forward nevanhu, ngavasiye hama dzedu dziyite mari. OK kubva Rhodesia vachidya mari. It's our time nothing can stop us.
General · 3 weeks ago
ndiyo vision 2030 yacho here
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Mudzviti · 3 weeks ago
Chinese nationals and some ZANU-PF loyalists evade taxes, while the poor are forced to pay. This is shameful. Soon, there will be no goods in shops. People are opting for cheaper alternatives from informal traders downtown, but they're being targeted. The issue is that Zimbabwe's taxes are excessively high and unfriendly, driving people to smuggle goods. Civil servants and other workers are heavily taxed despite their meager salaries. Cry, my Zimbabwe.
Chamisa · 3 weeks ago
Wabaya d,hodhi nechigunwe
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
This problem can be avoided if only we use one currency strictly like usd and no local currency wch is causing distortions that killed the retail and manufacturing sector.Imports were a result of distorted local prices due to dual currency with mispricing from fixed exchange rates. Just remove local currency and u see wat happens
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Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
I thought biscuits were on a duty free tariff, not so long ago. How can they provide proof of duty payment, when it is duty free.
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Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Duty free applies to non commercial imports.So if u import biscuits in bulk,zimra will consider it a commercial import and thus demand import doc respectively.pakaipa the amount of regulations in Zimbabwe is a nightmare
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Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
So basically , they enabled the smuggling of biscuits on buses?
wamambo90 · 3 weeks ago
mabiscuits pay duty in US$ hanzi maluxury goods
theLastAntKing · 3 weeks ago
yohweee zhara paHarare, magoods ayo achange asisatengeke. Iyo industry yemunyika ikumboshanda here, kune chiutsu here kana kuti angova ma Church nemisha yemakonzo
Meda Online · 3 weeks ago
Impose regulations? Reactionary policies. Kushingirira kurapa mhopo iri pamusana iwo musori une mbonje. Isu titori bhoo we are now used to your half backed regulations and statutory instruments. Itai yamuri kuita isu toita yatiri kuita.
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chirume chirume · 3 weeks ago
regai vatiise mucorner, very soon pple will revolt, check the space
chirume chirume · 3 weeks ago
the animal farm
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S. Class · 3 weeks ago
Kkkk kkkk Animal Farm chaiyo. Snowball, Napoleon isu vana Boxer
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
More prices ikes in shops....more hardship for the general population....the formal shops will be out of business...only garage shops will survive. Another great success 🙌 👏 👍
Tiger · 3 weeks ago
Zvechikafu cheruzhinji ndizvo zvamunoona zvichi smuggler. Ko gold hamusikuriona here.
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Yoooh · 3 weeks ago
Strategy is import and repackage with Zim branded packaging then sale
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Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Like Zesa?
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
2030 haangosvika tichangosara tamashanga chaiwo apa machinese vagere mushe mushe zvavo muzimbaremabwe
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Gamarieri · 3 weeks ago
Mahhorrrroo mambavha makuchennndeee

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