{"id":180165,"date":"2024-09-08T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-our-economy-needs-robust-tax-system-zimra\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:50:26","slug":"zimbabwe-our-economy-needs-robust-tax-system-zimra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-our-economy-needs-robust-tax-system-zimra\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Our Economy Needs Robust Tax System &#8211; Zimra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>Nelson Gahadza and Francis Gakanje<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) says it needs a robust and modern tax system to handle taxation in a complex economy such as Zimbabwe&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This entails further capacitation with the relevant tools to tax the country&#8217;s predominantly cash-driven informal sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">ZIMRA&#8217;s role in the economy includes the collection of both domestic and trade taxes on behalf of various arms of Government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The revenue authority also provides advisory services to the Government in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409060476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Gahadza and Francis Gakanje THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) says it needs a robust and modern tax system to handle taxation in a complex economy such as Zimbabwe&#8217;s. This entails further capacitation with the relevant tools to tax the country&#8217;s predominantly cash-driven informal sector. ZIMRA&#8217;s role in the economy includes the collection of both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5762,257,18185,254,7232,8352,4686,421,3069],"class_list":["post-180165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-robust","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","tag-tax","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}