Zimbabwe Import Duty On Second Hands Cars Increased

 The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has increased the import duty on all second-hand vehicles, despite the local manufacturing industry being constrained due to a difficult economic climate.

  • Zimbabwe:   Car Import Duty Up

    The Herald, 18 June 2015

    The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) unilaterally increased import duty on all second-hand motor vehicles with effect from last Wednesday. Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Mazda Motor Industries Faces Collapse

    Zimbabwe Independent, 22 May 2015

    WILLOWVALE Mazda Motor Industries (WMMI) faces collapse due to a combination of hostile factors that include the prevailing harsh economic environment, reduction of protective… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Economic Crunch Hits Mazda Motors

    Zimbabwe Independent, 22 May 2015

    THE 162 000 square-metre stand at the Willowvale industrial area in which Willowvale Mazda Motor Industries (WMMI) is located in Harare about 11km southwest of the city centre… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Zim Lacks Capacity to Assemble Cars

    Zimbabwe Independent, 15 May 2015

    ZIMBABWE no longer has the capacity to manufacture or assemble cars for the local market economically as the country does not have the economies of scale, with global trends… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Govt Policy Devastates Automobile Companies

    Zimbabwe Independent, 8 May 2015

    LOCAL automobile players fear heavy job losses resulting from the huge increase in import duty and orders to compel government departments, parastatals and other state enterprises… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   '6 000 Cars Imported Through Beitbridge'

    The Herald, 21 April 2015

    The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority says it has handled a total of 5 978 imports of second hand vehicles from Japan through Beitbridge Border post between January and March this year.… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Quest Motors Recapitalises

    Financial Gazette, 16 April 2015

    Quest Motors also holds the franchise for Chery, Foton, JMC vehicles and ZhongTong Buses. Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   We Can Deliver, Say Car Assemblers

    The Herald, 13 April 2015

    LOCAL vehicle assemblers say they have the capacity to assemble a wide range of vehicles for both the public and private sectors in accordance with a recent Government directive,… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Buy Cars Locally, Ministries Told

    The Herald, 2 April 2015

    GOVERNMENT has ordered all line ministries, public institutions and parastatals to buy at least 80 percent of their vehicles from local car assemblers with immediate effect, a… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Commodity Broker Nabbed in Magaya Vehicle Scam

    The Herald, 26 March 2015

    A commodity broker who allegedly connived with the managing director of Oceane Perfumes to import a vehicle for Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Prophet… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Zimra Seizes Magaya's Car

    The Herald, 20 March 2015

    Prophetic Healing Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya's wife Tendai, lost her vehicle, a Landrover Discovery valued at $116 000 after it was seized by the Zimbabwe… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Magaya's Wife Loses U.S.$116 000 Car

    The Herald, 23 March 2015

    Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya's wife, Tendai, has lost her vehicle, a Landrover Discovery 4 valued at $116 000, which was seized by the… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Car Importers Fleeced

    Zimbabwe Independent, 13 February 2015

    ZIMBABWEANS importing mostly second-hand cars from Japan and other countries are being systematically ripped off of their hard-earned money through payment of duty that requires… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Police Should Make 'Admission of Guilt'

    The Herald, 13 February 2015

    This is not a banana republic and the police cannot treat the country as such by defying the law every day for the past three years and when the judges point to them where they are… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Used Car Imports Gobble U.S $469 Million

    The Herald, 27 January 2015

    Zimbabweans spent $469 million importing vehicles from different countries last year, at a time capacity utilisation for local car assemblers fell to a lowly five percent, with… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Sharp Decline in Vehicle Imports

    The Herald, 20 November 2014

    Beitbridge border post is experiencing a significant decline in volumes of imported used cars following a 20 percent increase in excise duty which took effect on November 1. "We… Read more »

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