ZimCompany registers Zimbabwean companies for owners who are not in Zimbabwe, then keeps them compliant: tax registration, employer registration, clearances and renewals. One desk in Harare, coordinating licensed providers, whether you are a Zimbabwean living abroad, an investor from another country, or a company opening a subsidiary. Register and run a Zimbabwean company from anywhere.
Our fee and government fees are always shown as two separate numbers. On a Private Limited Company the registry charges US$5 per name-search application and US$60 to register the entity, taken from the live registry portal on 4 July 2026, and our price includes two name-search applications, so the registry fees inside it are US$65 on a clean run and US$70 where the second attempt is needed, at cost either way. You pay in full when you instruct the job, in one payment rather than in stages. Our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on the quote, and government fees are passed through at cost.
Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration. Your quotation arrives by email. Reply to it and we confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. If we cannot confirm a timeline in writing, anything you have paid comes back in full.
The filings are the same. What changes is who owns the company, and that changes which statutory appointments it has to hold and which approvals sit in front of it. Pick the one that describes you and the questionnaire starts from there.
None of the three is a sales call. All three produce a price, a document list and the government fees as their own number, except two routes where we talk to you first: a foreign owner buying into a company that already exists, where exchange control approval can apply, and a company with a foreign owner that will mainly work in a reserved sector. Invest in Zimbabwe: what a foreign-owned company actually needs.
Every quote we send separates our fee from the government fee. On a Private Limited Company the registry charges US$5 per name-search application, whether you send one name or five, and US$60 to register the entity. Our price includes two name-search applications, so the registry fees inside it are US$65 where the first set of names is accepted and US$70 where it takes the second attempt. Those figures came off the live registry portal on 4 July 2026 and we do not mark them up.
Some agents publish a single all-in number and quote the government fee as US$40. That does not match what the portal charged. Where a registry or a revenue authority does not itemise its component, we say so in words rather than inventing a split.
The two vehicles, the steps from name search to ZIMRA, the documents the registry needs, and what each step costs, with the government fee as its own number. How to register a company in Zimbabwe: steps, requirements and cost.
Ownership of a Zimbabwean company carries no residency requirement. The board is where residency bites, and it is the reason two people abroad get two different answers.
If nobody you know is ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe, you have two honest options: register a Private Business Corporation, which carries no residency requirement at all, or put someone you already trust and who does live there on the board of a Private Limited Company. Neither vehicle needs nobody. The Private Limited Company needs a resident director and a resident company secretary; the Private Business Corporation needs a qualified accounting officer named on its incorporation statement. We do not sell a nominee director, we do not provide a company secretary yet, and we do not provide an accounting officer, so each of those appointments is one you name yourself. Your estimate says that plainly, as a note with no price on it.
If you intend to sell to the Zimbabwean government, where your company is registered decides what you pay every year to stay on the supplier register. A locally registered small or medium enterprise pays around US$50 to US$75 per category per year. A foreign bidder pays US$850 a year. This is the one place where the choice between a Zimbabwean entity and a foreign one has a published annual price on it.
That gap repeats annually, for every year you bid, and it applies whether the owner is Zimbabwean or not: what matters to the procurement authority is where the company is registered, not whose passport is behind it.
Fee figures are from a secondary analysis of the 2026 fee structure. The procurement authority publishes no fee page of its own, so we confirm the fee for your categories with PRAZ before you pay it. Our own fee for PRAZ supplier registration is a separate number, on the PRAZ page and the price list, and so is the government vendor number from the Ministry of Finance, which is what lets government pay you once you win.
Every figure on this page was verified on 10 September 2026 against its published source.
ZimCompany is a Lioncap Ventures service. Lioncap Ventures (Pvt) Ltd is registered in Zimbabwe under number 16326A02102024 and operates from Harare. It builds and runs software and compliance platforms used by Zimbabwean businesses, including the data protection compliance practice at StoneGuard.
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Yes, and you do not have to be Zimbabwean either. Owning a Zimbabwean company carries no residency or citizenship requirement. The requirement sits on the board of a Private Limited Company: section 195(2) of the Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31] requires at least one director ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe and section 198(1) requires a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe. A Private Business Corporation carries neither, because those duties attach to a company and a PBC is a different entity type under the same Act. What a PBC does carry is a qualified accounting officer, named on its incorporation statement under section 248 and qualified under section 274. That is a question of qualification, not of residency, and you appoint your own.
Only for a Private Limited Company, under section 195(2). Section 198(1) separately requires a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe. If nobody you know is resident there, register a Private Business Corporation, which carries neither of those appointments and names a qualified accounting officer instead. We do not sell a nominee director, we do not provide a company secretary yet, and we do not provide an accounting officer, so each of those is yours to name.
Yes, and you get a price from us rather than a sales call. A Private Limited Company must hold a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 198 and a director ordinarily resident there under section 195(2). We provide neither, so both are appointments you name yourself and your estimate says so with no price attached. A Private Business Corporation carries neither of those, and names a qualified accounting officer on its incorporation statement instead. Reserved-sector limits and ZIDA registration may also apply, and both are set out on our foreign owner page rather than kept back.
Yes, as a shareholder of a Private Limited Company. It cannot use a Private Business Corporation: section 253(1) of the Companies and Other Business Entities Act allows only individual natural persons acting in their own right to be members and excludes a body corporate, directly or through a nominee. So a foreign parent opening a Zimbabwean subsidiary registers a Private Limited Company and holds the shares in it.
Registration with the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency is reported to apply to a Zimbabwean company with 51% or more foreign shareholding. ZIDA also runs a One Stop Investment Services Centre that facilitates company and tax registration, permits and sector licences. Our assistance with it is quoted after the foreign investor consultation, and the ZIDA fees are paid to ZIDA at cost. The foreign investor consultation is US$150, paid before the consultation, credited in full against your quotation if you proceed, and not refunded if you do not, because the consultation has been delivered. We confirm the current figures with ZIDA before you pay anything.
The Schedule to Statutory Instrument 215 of 2025 lists seventeen sectors. Thirteen sectors are exclusively for Zimbabweans: passenger buses, taxis and car hire services; barber shops, hairdressing and beauty salons; employment agencies; estate agencies; valet services; bakeries; tobacco grading and packaging; advertising agencies; provision of local arts and craft, marketing and distribution; artisanal mining; borehole drilling; clearing and customs; and pharmaceutical retailing. Three of them carry an exception for international brands, a term the regulations do not define: passenger buses, taxis and car hire services; estate agencies; and clearing and customs. The other four are open to a foreign national only at the Schedule's minimums of full-time paid employees and investment: retail and wholesale trade (200 employees and US$20,000,000); grain milling (50 employees and US$25,000,000); haulage and logistics (100 employees and US$10,000,000); and shipping and forwarding (20 employees and US$1,000,000). A foreign stake of any size counts, including a minority share and a share held by a company registered outside Zimbabwe, and operating in a reserved sector without a permit is an offence. If an owner is not a Zimbabwean citizen and the company will mainly work in one of these sectors, your estimate starts with the foreign investor consultation rather than a price. Verified 14 September 2026 (Government Gazette, S.I. 215 of 2025).
If every owner is a Zimbabwean citizen, yes: the share transfer and the change of directors are filings we quote once we have looked the company up on the register. If any owner is not a Zimbabwean citizen, exchange control approval can apply to acquiring shares in an existing company, so that route starts with a foreign investor consultation rather than an instant price or a refusal. The foreign investor consultation is US$150, paid before the consultation, credited in full against your quotation if you proceed, and not refunded if you do not, because the consultation has been delivered.
No. Work and residence permits for people you move to Zimbabwe are handled through ZIDA and the immigration authorities, and they are a separate process from registering the company. We say so before you plan around it rather than after.
Our fee and the government fee are always shown separately. On a Private Limited Company the registry charges US$5 per name-search application and US$60 to register the entity, taken from the live registry portal on 4 July 2026. Our price includes two name-search applications, so that is US$65 of registry fees on a clean run and US$70 where the second attempt is needed, at cost either way. Our own fees are on the pricing page.
Each item takes five working days from the day we have your complete documents, confirmed in writing by our filing partner. Where one item depends on another they run in sequence, so a ZIMRA registration waits for the certificate of incorporation and a tax clearance waits for the ZIMRA registration. That is the figure our filing partner has confirmed to us in writing, and it is the same for a company registration, a ZIMRA registration, a tax clearance, an NSSA registration, a VAT registration, a PRAZ supplier registration, a re-registration and annual returns. The government vendor number is the exception, because Treasury processes it rather than our filing partner: Treasury processes a government vendor number in 2 or 7 working days, depending on the route, counted from the day the complete application is lodged. We do not publish a total for a job made of several items, because the dependent ones run one after another. Your quotation still arrives by email, you reply to it, and we confirm your own timeline in writing before you pay. Claims of twenty four hour registration are made elsewhere and we are not willing to repeat them.
We do not publish one. A Zimbabwean company pays corporate income tax plus the 3% AIDS levy, at the rate in force for the year, which we confirm against the Finance Act before you rely on it. Published sources currently disagree on the 2026 rate, and neither the revenue authority nor the usual international tax summary has a working page that settles it, so stating a figure here would be guessing with your planning. The levy being 3% charged on the tax rather than on the profit is not in dispute.
Registration is compulsory once the value of taxable supplies exceeds, or is expected to exceed, US$25,000 or the ZiG equivalent within a period of 12 months. Below that, registration is voluntary but subject to a minimum turnover set by the Commissioner. The standard rate rose to 15.5% on 1 January 2026.
Contributions to the Pension and Other Benefits Scheme are 9% of insurable earnings in total, 4.5% from the employer and 4.5% from the employee, capped at US$700 of insurable earnings a month, so that contribution stops at US$31.50 per employee per month from the employer. That is the pension contribution only. The Accident Prevention and Workers Compensation Scheme premium is charged separately, as an industry-rated percentage of your wage bill gazetted each year, which we confirm for your sector.
Where no valid ITF263 tax clearance is produced, 30% is withheld from amounts payable to your company on contracts whose total or aggregate is US$1,000 or more. It is the most expensive thing to let lapse when nobody running the company is in the country.
A registered filing agent in Harare lodges registrations. Accounting work is done by a registered practice. Anything that amounts to legal advice, including shareholder agreements and the opinion on whether an exchange control approval applies to your transaction, is referred to a legal practitioner. ZimCompany is the desk that coordinates them and carries the deadlines.
They are stored in an encrypted document store and used only to complete the filings you asked for. We keep them for twelve months after your last completed job unless a retainer is running, then delete them. The privacy page sets this out in full.
ZimCompany registers and runs Zimbabwean companies for people and businesses anywhere in the world: owners living outside Zimbabwe, foreign investors, and companies registered elsewhere that need a Zimbabwean entity. Email support@lioncapventures.com or message +263 77 272 4514 on WhatsApp. We work 9:00 to 17:00 CAT, UTC+2 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
ZimCompany is a Lioncap Ventures service. Lioncap Ventures (Pvt) Ltd, registration 16326A02102024, Harare, Zimbabwe. Start with the questionnaire at https://zimcompany.com/start.
Register a company in Zimbabwe: The two vehicles, the steps from name search to ZIMRA, the documents the registry needs, and what each step costs, with the government fee as its own number.