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Taxes

If you are willing to incorporate in Zimbabwe, this will tell you about tax laws in Zimbabwe for a LLC which is the most common company type in the country.

Zimbabwe taxes income from a source within Zimbabwe or deemed to be within Zimbabwe. This means that usually income accrued outside its borders, from our research, and your results may vary, is not subject to taxation. However, foreign-source dividends and interests earned by resident companies may be subject to Corporate Income Tax. The headline corporate income tax is 25% plus a 3% AIDS levy. Being an effective tax rate of 25.75%. This ranks Zimbabwe as 125th overall with regards to corp. taxation rate internationally.

The valued added tax rate in Zimbabwe is 16.00%, which ranks the country as 80th when compared to VAT globally. In terms of other taxation, an employer will contribute 3.5% to the equivalent of a social security fund and an employee will contribute 3.5%. The overall complexity of the tax system is medium. This is measured by average time to comply with a country's labor tax requirements is as it is 96 hours. Contributing to this is the number of yearly labor tax payments, which is 3 in ZW.

Thin cap standards are officially enacted. Thin capitalisation refers to any type of laws on companies' debt-to-asset ratios. Dividends received from a resident entity are tax exempt. However, those received from a foreign- entity are taxed at a 20% rate. A tax credit may be available for foreign tax paid. Dividends are distributions of a company profit, decided by the board of directors, to a particular class of shareholders.Dividends can be issued as shares of stock, cash payments, or other property. Capital Gains tax is levied at a 1% of proceeds of listed securities, 20% of gains from properties and 20% of gains from unlisted securities. A capital gains tax is levied on the profits that a corporation or natural person realizes when he or she sells sells a capital asset for a price that is higher than the purchase price.

There are no interests withholding taxes. Which means that payments on interests made to non-residents are not subject to taxation. The dividends withhholding tax rate is 15%. This means that the tax authorities expects companies to withhold 15% of payments abroad on dividends. The royalties withholding tax rate is 15%. Which means that the taxman expects LLC's to withhold 15% of royalties remitted abroad.
There is no known tax on wealth in Zimbabwe. There are real property, tranfer and inheritance taxes. There are not many popular and well known credits for innovation spend that include tax incentives in this country.

The above is not tax or legal advice for your individual facts and circumstances. We can point you to an accountant in Zimbabwe who can answer all your questions. Ready to get started? Click incorporate now if you are in a hurry, or press the free consultation button above.

Country details

Zimbabwe
ZWL
Harare
Africa
en-ZW, sn, nr, nd
11,651,858

Tax treaties

Country Type Date Signed
United Kingdom DTC  1982-10-19
Malaysia DTC  1994-04-28
France DTC  1993-12-15
South Africa DTC  1965-06-10
Canada DTC  1992-04-16
Sweden DTC  1989-03-10
Botswana DTC  2004-06-16
Poland DTC  1993-07-09
Norway DTC  1999-03-09
Seychelles DTC  2002-08-06
Netherlands DTC  1989-05-18
Germany DTC  1988-04-22
Mauritius DTC  1992-03-06

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