{"id":246970,"date":"2026-10-12T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prospect-lithium-says-it-has-paid-over-u-s-100m-in-taxes-seeks-relief-from-double-taxation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:00:30","slug":"zimbabwe-prospect-lithium-says-it-has-paid-over-u-s-100m-in-taxes-seeks-relief-from-double-taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prospect-lithium-says-it-has-paid-over-u-s-100m-in-taxes-seeks-relief-from-double-taxation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Prospect Lithium Says It Has Paid Over U.S.$100m in Taxes, Seeks Relief From &#8216;Double Taxation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">PROSPECT Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) says it has paid more than US$100 million in taxes to government since starting operations, but is calling for changes to the tax regime. The company argues that treating export taxes and levies as non-deductible expenses creates a double taxation burden for the lithium sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">PLZ raised the concerns on Friday during a media tour organised by the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), amid growing debate on how Zimbabwe can maximise revenue from lithium&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>PROSPECT Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) says it has paid more than US$100 million in taxes to government since starting operations, but is calling for changes to the tax regime. The company argues that treating export taxes and levies as non-deductible expenses creates a double taxation burden for the lithium sector. PLZ raised the concerns on Friday [&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":[258,256,7053,43979,257,12206,12848,10864,8111,254,7054,12062,55398,4686,421],"class_list":["post-246970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-double","tag-lithium","tag-news","tag-paid","tag-prospect","tag-relief","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taxation","tag-taxes","tag-u-s-100m","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246970","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=246970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246970\/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=246970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}