Politburo wants illegal settlements regularised

Politburo wants illegal settlements regularised   Herald 26/3/2020  Dr Mpofu Joseph Madzimure Senior Reporter THE Zanu PF Politburo wants Government to regularise illegal settlements around major cities and compensate the original owners of the land that was occupied illegally. The Politburo, which is the party’s highest decision-making body, arrived at the decision after hours of serious …

Zim introduces new transfer pricing return for taxpayers

Zim introduces new transfer pricing return for taxpayers   Chronicle 25/3/2020  Business Reporter ZIMBABWE has introduced an advance version of the transfer pricing return that taxpayers are directed to file with their annual self-assessment corporate income tax return for the year ended 31 December 2019. Transfer pricing is one of the most topical issues in …

Regulations to Curb Spread of COVID-19

BILL WATCH 10/2020 [24th March 2020] Regulations to Curb Spread of COVID-19 A Government Gazette Extraordinary published late yesterday afternoon, 23rd March, contained two statutory instruments to give legal backing to the measures announced recently by the President and the Minister of Minister of Health and Child Care.  Both statutory instruments [SIs] came into force …

Dispossessed ex-commercial farmers decry discrimination

Dispossessed ex-commercial farmers decry discrimination Independent 20/3/2020 NYASHA CHINGONO WHITE commercial farmers who lost their land during the chaotic agrarian reforms in 2000 have bemoaned the government’s preferential treatment of foreign farmers who are being compensated for lost land. This comes after it emerged that the government compensated 11 dispossessed Dutch farmers by awarding them …

Indigenous farmers cry foul over new compensation rules

Indigenous farmers cry foul over new compensation rules Posted on March 20, 2020 by The Independent in Main News Nyasha Chingono OVER 300 former black commercial farmers, who lost land during the 2000 chaotic land reform programme, say the recently gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 62 of 2020 was a calculated ploy by Zimbabwe’s broke government to dodge compensating for land …

List of BIPPA countries – Transitional Stabilisation Programme

PARTNER SIGNED RATIFIED 1.      China 21/05/1996 11/02/1998 2.      Denmark 25/10/1996 11/02/1998 3.      Germany 29/09/1995 11/02/1996 4.      India 10/02/1999 09/06/2014 5.      Iran 20/10/1998 09/06/2014 6.      Netherlands 11/12/1996 11/02/1998 7.      Swiss confederation 15/08/1996 11/02/1998 8.      Yugoslavia 19/10/1996 11/02/1998 9.      RSA 27/11/2009 11/05/2010 10. Russia 07/10/2012 29/05/2014 11. Kuwait 07/03/2000 03/09/2014 12. OPEC Fund 26/08/2003 03/09/2014 Signed & Awaiting Ratification 1.      Austria 10/11/2000   2.      Botswana 21/03/2011   3.      Croatia 18/02/2000   4.      Czech …