‘150% duty for second-hand vehicles’

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda wants the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to charge 150% in customs duty on second-hand vehicles, claiming Zimbabwe has become Japan’s largest warehouse of used cars.

Speaking at a Zimra and parliamentarians workshop in Harare yesterday, Mudenda said the tax collector had the muscle to charge that kind of tax, since car importers were siphoning the much needed foreign currency.

“You have muscle.

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