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Zimbabwe moved its company register onto a new system under the Companies and Other Business Entities Act. Statutory Instrument 108 of 2025 set a re-registration deadline of 20 April 2026; Statutory Instrument 76 of 2026 moved it to 20 April 2028. The deadline moved, the backlog did not: companies that let annual returns lapse still clear them manually before they can join the new register.
Last verified 10 September 2026. 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.
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. 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.
A very common story: a company was registered in Zimbabwe years ago, it traded for a while, the family moved, and nothing has been filed since. The name is still yours on paper, the certificate is in a drawer somewhere, and now you want to use it again, or sell an asset it holds, or simply stop it being a problem.
The registry has been moving companies onto the register kept under the Companies and Other Business Entities Act. Statutory Instrument 108 of 2025 set the re-registration deadline at 20 April 2026. Statutory Instrument 76 of 2026 amended it and moved the deadline to 20 April 2028. The deadline moved; the backlog did not. Reporting on the transition describes a hybrid digital and paper process in which companies with historical gaps clear outstanding annual returns manually before they can join the new system, and an extra two years has not shortened that queue for anybody.
Do not read the new date as a reason to wait. What decides the cost of your job is what the register holds against your company today, and every year you leave it is another annual return to file. We check the actual position of your company on the register before we quote you anything beyond the base fee.
The register check comes first. The re-registration register check is a paid consultation: US$50, 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.
If the register check shows your company in a state we cannot fix through the normal route, we say so rather than quoting you for a re-registration that cannot succeed. If that only comes to light after you have paid for the re-registration itself, we refund what you paid for it. That promise is in the refund policy as well as on this page, so you can rely on it rather than on a sentence in a sales page.
Annual returns are the filing most dormant companies are behind on. They are filed per year, they carry their own cost per year, and no agent can tell you how many are outstanding without looking. That is why re-registration is quoted as a base fee plus whatever the register shows, and why the register check comes before the quotation.
Once the company is current, the annual return becomes a single dated obligation each year. We track it against your incorporation anniversary and quote the renewal before it is late, which is the whole point of the retainer.
Our fee for company re-registration in Zimbabwe: US$180. Government fees included in the price, not itemised by the registry. Our fee and the government fee are always shown as two separate numbers.
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.
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. 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. Prices were last verified on 10 September 2026. The full price list is at ZimCompany pricing.
Usually not, but it may be in the manual clearing route rather than on the digital register. The first step is a register check, which tells us what is outstanding before anyone quotes you a total.
The re-registration register check is a paid consultation: US$50, 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. It tells you what the registry holds against your company before you are quoted the total, and the re-registration itself is quoted after it, from the base fee above plus whatever the register shows.
20 April 2028. Statutory Instrument 108 of 2025 originally set 20 April 2026, and Statutory Instrument 76 of 2026 amended it to 20 April 2028. Waiting is still the expensive option: each year that passes is another annual return to file before the company can be brought current.
Yes. They are separate filings, priced per year, and we tell you the number before you pay.
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. The five working days are counted from the day we hold everything we asked you for, not from the day you paid, because an incomplete file cannot be lodged. Where you are buying more than one item we do not publish a total, because the dependent ones run one after another. 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.
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.
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