Service
Tax Management
We take responsibility for the ZIMRA relationship — registrations, returns, remittances and correspondence — so that compliance stops being something you chase and starts being something that simply happens on a calendar.
Tax management for a Zimbabwean business is not one obligation. It is PAYE monthly, VAT monthly or bi-monthly, provisional tax on quarterly payment dates, an annual self-assessment return, withholding taxes as transactions arise, and an ITF263 tax clearance certificate that has to be renewed and kept valid or your corporate customers will start withholding from what they pay you.
Each of those has its own return, its own remittance and its own consequence for lateness. We hold all of them on one calendar, with a named preparer and a separate reviewer for each item, and we file the acknowledgements with the working papers so that proof of submission exists when someone eventually asks for it.
What the engagement covers
- ZIMRA registration and TaRMS onboarding, including re-establishing access where a company has lost it
- Monthly PAYE computation, remittance and returns, plus the annual reconciliation
- VAT returns for every tax period, including nil returns, with the input tax trail reviewed before filing
- Quarterly provisional tax (QPD) estimates re-forecast before each date rather than rolled forward
- Annual income tax return and the reconciliation from accounting profit to taxable income
- ITF263 tax clearance applications and renewals, tracked so they do not lapse
- Withholding tax on qualifying payments, including cross-border payments and treaty positions
- Correspondence with ZIMRA: queries, objections, payment plans and audit support
How we approach it
Position review first
Before we file anything we establish where you actually stand: what is registered, what has been filed, what is outstanding, and what the taxpayer account statement shows in penalties and interest. Clients are frequently unaware of balances sitting on their account.
Close the gaps deliberately
Where there are outstanding periods we quantify the exposure and agree a sequence for clearing it — including, where appropriate, approaching ZIMRA with a computed position rather than waiting for discovery on audit.
Run it on a calendar
Every recurring obligation gets a dated internal deadline set ahead of the statutory one, so a missing invoice can still be chased. You receive the return and the computation for approval before we file.
Plan, then comply
Once the compliance base is stable, the useful conversations begin — structuring, timing, allowances, and whether a filing position you have been taking for years is one we would defend.
Frameworks we work within
- Income Tax Act [Chapter 23:06] and the annual Finance Act amendments
- Value Added Tax Act [Chapter 23:12]
- Capital Gains Tax Act [Chapter 23:01]
- ZIMRA administrative practice, including the TaRMS platform
- Double taxation agreements in force between Zimbabwe and its treaty partners
Common questions
Usually the opposite, provided you go in prepared. A quantified position with input tax properly claimed and a proposal for settlement is a materially better outcome than the same liability discovered on audit. What is a bad idea is an unprepared admission.
Yes. We are appointed on the taxpayer account as your representative and handle correspondence, queries and objections. You are copied on everything and approve any filing position before it is taken.
Registration creates filing obligations whether or not you traded. Nil returns are still returns, and unfiled periods on a dormant company are a common reason a tax clearance application is refused years later.
Need help with tax management?
Tell us where you currently stand. We will come back with a scope, a fee basis and an honest view of whether we are the right firm for it.