{"id":4350,"date":"2014-07-22T11:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2014-07-22T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:40:25","slug":"zimbabwe-taxman-misses-revenue-collection-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-taxman-misses-revenue-collection-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe taxman misses revenue collection target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harare &#8211; Company closures, retrenchments and a liquidity crunch caused the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to miss its revenue collection target for the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The taxman collected $1.72bn, which was lower than a target of $1.74bn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the revenue was realised from value added tax, individual taxes and excise duty which contributed 26%, 25% and 14% respectively&#8221;, said Gershem Pasi, commissioner-general at Zimra.<\/p>\n<p>Zimra\u2019s subdued performance will put pressure on the administration of President Robert Mugabe which is under growing pressure to take measures to revive the economy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/africa\/africanbusiness\/2014\/07\/21\/zimbabwe-taxman-misses-revenue-collection-target\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare &#8211; Company closures, retrenchments and a liquidity crunch caused the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to miss its revenue collection target for the first half. The taxman collected $1.72bn, which was lower than a target of $1.74bn. &#8220;Most of the revenue was realised from value added tax, individual taxes and excise duty which contributed 26%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[3071,258,256,427,257,3070,254,4693,4686,421,3068,3069],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-administration-of-mugabe-is-under-growing-pressure","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-revive-the-economy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwe-revenue-authority","tag-zimra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/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=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}