How to register with Zimra

30 days after launching your business, you must register with ZIMRA. Upon application, registration can be completed manually or electronically. For a newly formed company to be registered, the following paperwork must be attached to the REV 1 form or submitted with it when registering online:

Zimra Registration Requirements

• Corporate Certificate

• CR14: includes information about the directors.

• CR6: contains the company’s registered address.

• Recent bank statement with a stamp;

• Memorandum of Association, number five (1st 3 pages plus the last page)

• Articles of Association, number six (1st 3 pages plus the last page)

• Records for at least two Directors

  a) An identification card;

  b) Utility bills as proof of residency; if the bill is not in your name, support with an affidavit.

• Public officer’s paperwork

  a) A letter appointing the individual as a public official that includes the individual’s name, ID number, residential address, and a notation that the individual is a signatory to the company’s bank account;

  b) Identification card

  c) A current bank statement with a stamp;

  d) Utility bills or, if not in your name, support by an affidavit as proof of residency.

Other Services

Concerning People:

1. a current bank statement with a stamp;

2. A copy of an ID;

3. A copy of utility bills proving residency, backed up by an affidavit if not in the trader’s name.

Following confirmation of registration, the business is given a Business Partner Number (BPN) and informed of the tax headings registered for.

After the conclusion of each tax year, each registered client is expected to submit a tax return by 30 April of the following year. Every year, the tax year runs from 1 January to 31 December.

Operators of omnibuses, taxicabs, driving schools, goods vehicles, hair salons, unregistered traders, restaurant or bottle store owners, small-scale miners, cottage industry owners, operators of commercial waterborne vessels used for the carriage of passengers for profit, and fishing rigs are among the business operators who are required to pay presumptive taxes.

Anyone who conducts taxable supply business and whose annual taxable turnover exceeds or is anticipated to exceed US$1,000,000.00 must submit a Form REV 1 application to register for VAT. The 25th day of the month following the end of the tax period is when VAT returns must be submitted and payments for taxes owed are due.

Within 14 days of becoming an employer, every businessperson is obliged to submit an application for registration to the Commissioner General.

Within ten days after the end of the month in which the money was withheld, Pay As You Earn (PAYE) must be remitted to ZIMRA.

For all other documents that must be accounted for in accordance with the various Acts that ZIMRA administers, you are required to maintain reasonable and appropriate records and books of accounts. Keep all documentation for a minimum of six (6) years.

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