{"id":5200,"date":"2024-10-16T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:51:43","slug":"zimra-intensifies-fight-against-smuggling-with-use-of-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"Zimra Intensifies Fight Against Smuggling with Use of Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Innocent Sibonginkosi Ncube<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is intensifying its efforts to combat smuggling, which remains a significant problem despite ongoing enforcement measures. According to Francis Chimanda, Zimra&#8217;s head of corporate communications, people smuggle goods to avoid paying duties and taxes, and to evade controls at entry points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimra has implemented various measures to curb smuggling, including the use of drones along the country&#8217;s borders, introduced in June this year. The authority collects revenue, such as customs duty, excise duty, and import value-added tax, at border posts, crucial to Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, Zimra offers a traveler&#8217;s rebate of duty, allowing individuals to import non-commercial goods up to $200 per month duty-free. However, smuggling persists, with private importers exploiting lower duty rates, ranging from 5% for books to 110% for certain alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duty Rates for Non-Commercial Goods:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Books: 5%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alcoholic Beverages: up to 110%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cigarettes: flat monetary amount per quantity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clothing and Footwear: combination of percentage and flat monetary amount<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To address smuggling, Zimra emphasizes the importance of compliance with customs regulations and procedures. The authority provides guidelines on customs clearance, classification of goods, and duty calculations to facilitate legitimate trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innocent Sibonginkosi Ncube The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is intensifying its efforts to combat smuggling, which remains a significant problem despite ongoing enforcement measures. According to Francis Chimanda, Zimra&#8217;s head&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}