ZimCompany › ZIMRA registration
Register with ZIMRA when the company starts trading; as an employer, within 14 days of the first hire. Registration issues your TIN under TaRMS, and a Business Partner Number where one applies, and opens the tax heads that apply to you. ZimCompany files the registration so the number is in hand before the first invoice goes out.
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.
You register with ZIMRA when the company starts trading. There is no thirty day company registration rule on ZIMRA’s New Businesses page, whatever agent pages repeat; what that page does put a deadline on is employing people. An employer must apply for registration within 14 days of becoming an employer.
Registration is what produces your TIN under TaRMS, and a Business Partner Number where one applies. That identifier follows your company through every tax filing, every clearance and every procurement form for the rest of its life. Your bank will ask for it. Corporate customers will ask for it. It appears on your invoices.
Registration also decides which tax heads are opened against your company: income tax always, Pay As You Earn once you have staff, Value Added Tax if you register for it, and withholding taxes where they apply. Getting the heads right at the start avoids nil returns for taxes you never owed and penalties for returns nobody told you to file.
Registration is the moment the calendar starts. Pay As You Earn is remitted within 10 days after the end of the month once you have staff. The ITF16 return is due within 30 days after the end of the year. Value Added Tax returns are due by the 25th if you are registered for VAT. Quarterly payment dates fall on 25 March, 25 June, 25 September and 20 December.
For a company whose owners are not in Zimbabwe this is the part that goes wrong quietly. Nobody there is watching the calendar for you, and the first sign of trouble is usually a customer telling you your tax clearance has lapsed. Our monthly compliance retainer exists for exactly this reason.
Our fee for zimra registration and tin in Zimbabwe: US$90. Government fees included in the price, not itemised by ZIMRA. 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.
The TIN is the Tax Identification Number ZIMRA issues under TaRMS, its current taxpayer system. The Business Partner Number is the older identifier and still applies to some taxpayers. Whichever your company is given appears on your tax filings, your clearance certificate and most procurement forms, and your bank will ask for it when you open an account.
Register with ZIMRA when the company starts trading; as an employer, within 14 days of the first hire. ZIMRA publishes no thirty day company registration deadline, so we do not repeat one. Most clients buy this with the company registration anyway, so the two are done from the same document pack.
No. The filing is done for you. What you need to provide is the incorporation pack, identity documents and a plain description of what the business does.
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.
ZimCompany is a Lioncap Ventures service. Lioncap Ventures (Pvt) Ltd, registration 16326A02102024, Harare, Zimbabwe. Start with the questionnaire at https://zimcompany.com/start.
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