Even if the
system was running
efficiently, importers still
lose 1% from the administration fee charge
by the private company
running the operation
THERE HAS been no progress with efforts to change the VAT payment and rebate system on South African exports coming into Zimbabwe. Shipping and Forwarding Agents Association of Zimbabwe chairman Rhett Hill says that despite numerous appeals and letters to South African and Zimbabwean authorities, there has been complete silence.
Importers find it difficult enough to get back the VAT from South Africa but trying to recover the money from Zimbabwe is even worse, he says, Ñ and they are also distinctly unhappy about that.
BY MARTIN RUSHMERE
