via Bulawayo24 NEWS | Zimra raid Bulawayo businesses. 11 June 2014
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Bulawayo branch has launched a tax blitz on city firms and closing tax evaders.
Close to 30 officials raided Parkade Centre today demanding tax from shop operators.
Shops found wanting are being shut down but alert shop owners closed before officials arrived.
“They are demanding tax forms and they are telling us to shut down if we don’t have or face arrest. We don’t keep the forms here.” said one salon owner.
Presence of Zimra officials has attracted a huge crowd of onlookers.
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Show the zimra robbers your zanupf cards. Then you’ll be untouchable
Just tell them you all working for Overt. Paying tax for no services, crazy.
Why not raid uncle Robert. He owes the most
oooh hear hear John Thomas 100% correct the thieving geriatric has some of the loot stashed away in havens with the assistance of Robert Mhlanga so that he cannot pay tax e.g. Singapore, British Virgin Islands
Zimra, ZRP, ZBC … they are all out on a mad scramble to extract cash from anyone who has a dollar.. Big business, industry, agriculture have all collapsed. So now ZPF is targeting the last few dollars in the pockets of commuters in mini-buses, hairdressers, tuck-shops and other survivors of Mr Mugabe’s economic vision.
Roving Ambassador is right they should all say they work for Obert Mpofu
If you live in Zimbabwe yo do work for Obert – who else gains from your sweat?
The destruction of Bulawayo continues.
Judgement day is taking too long!!! who is talking about rebuilding the economy, really kiss my foot, when there is absolutely no incentives for businesses and those who dare succeed are ruthlessly taken over or terrorised
Some actions don’t need to be attacked for the sake of it,but must be viewed as symptomatic if not symbolic gestures.Honestly,how do you milk from a distressed zone instead of buttressing.Especially if one is conscious and at correct senses.I don’t think they are copying.DO YOU COPY OVER–NO!!!THEY SAY ON SOME DISCIPLINES–hokoyo!!
One would have thought such distressed businesses which are still operating and providing employment should be getting support from government! Not that they shouldn’t pay tax, but govt can open dialogue with them on how they can do so and still remain afloat. Anyway, what can one expect from an evil gukurahundi govt.
The thieving Zanu have put themselves in a corner. They need the money to pay the soldiers and cops so they can stay in power and carry on looting and killing.Mugabe and his Zanu are locusts. All they know is to destroy everything.They can’t build a thing. They’ll raid companies until they all shut down. Then they’ll take from people’s bank accounts,then they’ll go door to door in Opearation Imali Ingaphi? Taking money from piggy banks, mattresses and tins. It’s inevitable
I believe you, I hope people are listening, especially the part about invading people’s bank accounts. No one should say they were not warned
No one is suggesting that taxes should not be paid because every normal society does so to sustain the economy. The problem is that even if the taxes were paid it does not go to the rightful use but instead enriches a few thugs who neither them nor their stolen businesses pay taxes. What a shame!!! I would love to see a day when these senseless Zimra puppets receive no salries themselves.
They have milked the cow dry and never fed it. The end is getting
nearer each day
Shut down. Trade of the pavement like the rest of the nation and do not pay any rates or tax. Passive resistance. ZIMRA again demonstrates its inability to go outside the box – try some carrots instead of sticks .
The trouble with this Zanu PF regime is that is has always looked on the private sector as a super dairy cow with an udder so bigger it always met government’s demands regardless how big those demands were. Indeed the more often the cow was milked the more she produced!
Companies are facing the small economic hardships that government is facing and therefore could do with some tax break to help them survive instead the regime is milking them even harder than ever! Many companies are closing down and so the few remaining are being taxed even harder than ever before. This is a vicious circle but who is listening – certainly not the regime!
One wonders how come all the bad things happen in Matebeleland? Paying tax’s to sustain Harare. The way forward is for people of Bulawayo to refuse to pay and risk imprisonment.
Start with all the dodgy businesses owned by the likes of Obert Mpofu, Chiyangwa, Chombo,in fact all Government officials. Make them account for it. If ZIMRA does that Im sure they will recover enough to fund the creature that is ZIMASSET.
Why should any one pay, the top dogs don’t. Stop paying any tax, revolt against this odious regime!
i thought all Bulawayo companies are closed.
What is between these peoples ears??
Even a junior tax policy analyst will tell you that you can only increase your revenue by widening your tax base, not by overtaxing the few that are taxable. The government needs to create an environment that enables entreprenuers and investors alike to enter into the mainstream economy instead of victimising these struglling people who are just trying to earn a living.As long we have a government led by these idiots, more companies will close and Zimra will respond by taxing you for basking in the sun.
Every business is downsizing or closing ..is ZIMRA? Civil service pay dates moved back again!!!!brace yourself, lets see who runs first…
I hope its not bulawayo only being targeted
no matter what people of bulawayo will never vote for zanu
They have milked the cow dry
They never fed the cow
They expect the cow to produce more milk
So they can feed themselves and their children
The calves have staggered away
To try and find a way far away
Very soon the cow will drop dead
But that won’t be the end
They will fight for the undernourished meat
While dogs will refuse the meat
Next it will be the bones
Even the skin will be torn
they will stoop to the end
They will have nothing to spend
They will have nowhere to fend
And that will be the end
these thieving scumbags at the top have no conscience at all – they will take from the poor