Correction: Zimbabwe implements tourism VAT

- By Dorine Reinstein
It is unclear whether the proposed 15% Value Added Tax for accommodation and tourism services paid by foreign visitors to Zimbabwe will be scrapped or merely postponed.
It is unclear whether the proposed 15% Value Added Tax for accommodation and tourism services paid by foreign visitors to Zimbabwe will be scrapped or merely postponed.
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The Zimbabwean government announced on January 19 that it would start levying VAT on tourism with immediate effect.

The tax applies to payments for accommodation by foreign visitors to Zimbabwe.

The new Statutory Instrument was gazetted late on Friday, January 16, and publicly announced on Monday.

Tourism Update reported on Tuesday morning that VAT had not been passed, but it was passed subsequently and is now in effect.

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