Business Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has targeted retailers selling smuggled products who are set to be identified by placing 16 specified items on the shelves.
If a business is found in possession of these goods, and cannot show ZIMRA proof that you paid duty for them, you will be “deemed to have smuggled the goods and liable to payment of the duty thereof, including applicable penalties.”
The regulation doesn’t target consumers, but traders and manufacturers:
“For the avoidance of doubt, no customer shall be required to produce proof of payment of duty on imported goods purchased from a local manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer. It shall be the responsibility of the person who would have imported the goods or the manufacturer (in the case of such imported goods used as inputs into production), wholesaler or retailer of such imported goods to provide satisfactory documentary evidence to the extent that the goods have been properly imported.”
