Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2012 – H.B. 6, 2012
(a) with effect from the 1st November, 2012, in paragraph 4(o) by the deletion of “seven
hundred United States dollars” and the substitution of “one thousand United States dollars”;
(b) with effect from the year of assessment beginning on the 1st January, 2013, in paragraph 8
by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (2) —
“(3) Half the amount or value of a school benefit referred to in paragraph (f)I(a)(vi) of
the definition of “advantage or benefit” in section :
Provided that this exemption shall not apply to more than three of the children of the
employee concerned.”.
PART III
VALUE ADDED TAX
6
Amendment of section 12A of Cap. 23:12
With effect from the 1st January, 2013, section 12A (“Deferment of collection of tax on capital
goods”) of the Value Added Tax Act [Chapter 23:12] is amended by the repeal of subsection (2) and
the substitution of⎯
“(2) Where any person in favour of whom a deferment has been authorised in terms of
subsection (1) —
(a) sells, re-exports or otherwise disposes of such goods before or after the expiry of the
period of the deferment, without having used them in the manner that qualified them
for deferment of payment of tax in terms of subsection (1); or
(b) fails to pay the deferred tax by the date which the Commissioner fixes in terms of
subsection (1) as the date on which the payment of the deferred tax is due;
such person shall become liable, iin addition to an trax for which he or she is liable on such
disposal, to an additional amount of tax equal to the tax paid or payable by him or her on the
expiry of the period of the deferment, together with interest thereon calculated in accordance with
section 46:
Provided that if the Commissioner is satisfied that the disposal of the goods in question or
the delay in paying the deferred tax was not due to an intent to evade the provisions of this section
the Commissioner may waive the payment of the whole or such part of the additional amount of
tax payable as the Commissioner thinks fit.”.
PART IV
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
7
Amendment of section 172B of Cap. 23:02
Section 172B (“Special excise duty on sales of second-hand motor vehicles”) (1) of the Customs
and Excise Act [Chapter 23:02] is amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after
paragraph (d)⎯
“or
(e) to the Government of Zimbabwe by a private voluntary organisation or a nonresident entity in circumstances where the vehicle is donated upon the completion of
a project that was the subject of an agreement between the ‘Government and the
organisation or entity concerned.”.
6