Zimbabwe

Ease of Doing Business in

Zimbabwe

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Zimbabwe. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 185 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy's distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

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Economy Summary
Starting a Business
Dealing with Construction Permits
Getting Electricity
Registering Property
Getting Credit
Protecting Investors
Paying Taxes
Trading Across Borders
Enforcing Contracts
Resolving Insolvency
Region Sub-Saharan Africa
Income Category Low income
Population 12,754,378
GNI Per Capita (US$) 640
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
172 170 down -2

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
38.7 39.1 down -0.4
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 143 145 up 2
Dealing with Construction Permits 170 169 up -1
Getting Electricity 157 165 up 8
Registering Property 85 84 up -1
Getting Credit 129 127 up -2
Protecting Investors 128 124 up -4
Paying Taxes 134 127 up -7
Trading Across Borders 167 172 up 5
Enforcing Contracts 111 112 up 1
Resolving Insolvency 169 155 up -14

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This data shows the tax that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes. These measures include the number of payments an entrepreneur must make; the number of hours spent preparing, filing, and paying; and the percentage of their profits they must pay in taxes.

DB 2013 Rank 134 DB 2012 Rank 127 Change in Rank down-7
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 59.3 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 59.4 Improvement in DTF** (% points) down-0.1
Indicator Zimbabwe Sub-Saharan Africa OECD

The total number of tax payments per year. The indicator reflects the total number of taxes and contributions paid, the method of payment, the frequency of payment and the number of agencies involved for a standardized case during the second year of operation.

View methodology Payments (number per year)
49 39 12

The time it takes to prepare, file and pay (or withhold) the corporate income tax, the value added tax and social security contributions (in hours per year).

View methodology Time (hours per year)
242 319 176

The amount of taxes on profits paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits.

View methodology Profit tax (%)
20.5 19.0 15.2

The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions on labor paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits.

View methodology Labor tax and contributions (%)
5.1 13.3 23.8

The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profit that are not already included in the categories of profit or labor taxes.

View methodology Other taxes (%)
10.1 25.5 3.7

The total tax rate measures the amount of taxes and mandatory contributions payable by the business in the second year of operation, expressed as a share of commercial profits.

View methodology Total tax rate (% profit)
35.8 57.8 42.7
Tax or mandatory contribution Payments (number) Notes on Payments Time (hours) Statutory tax rate Tax base Total tax rate (% profit) Notes on TTR
Corporate income tax 4 78 25% taxable profit 19.3 separating out the AIDS levy
Property tax 12 various rates property value 8.1
Social security contributions 0 paid jointly 96 3% gross salaries with ceiling 3.4
Fuel tax 1 included in fuel price 1.7
Manpower development duty 12 1% gross salaries 1.1
Capital gains tax 1 20% capital gains 0.7
Standards development levy 2 1% gross salaries 0.6
AIDS levy 0 paid jointly 3% surcharge on corporate income tax 0.6
Road tax 4 USD 160 fixed fee 0.2
Tax on check transactions (stamp duty) 1 USD 12 per check 0.1
Tax on interest 0 15% interest income 0
Value added tax (VAT) 12 68 15% value added 0 not included
Totals: 49 242 35.8

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

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