Your invoices now matter for your tax clearance. Here is the plain version.
What ZIMRA says
A ZIMRA public notice says Tax Clearance Certificates will only be issued to taxpayers who comply with fiscalisation and FDMS requirements. That includes recording all sales using fiscal devices.
FDMS is the system your fiscal device reports to. In short, your sales records need to be clean before you can get the certificate.
More details on every invoice
Public Notice 30 of 2025 came out on 15 May 2025. It asked all VAT-registered taxpayers, even those under the USD 25,000 registration threshold, to meet new fiscalisation requirements by 31 May 2025.
One part of this is buyer information. Fiscal tax invoices need details like name, address, TIN and VAT number.
Doing that by hand for every sale is slow. It is also easy to get wrong.
Two shop owners
Shop A writes receipts by hand and sorts out VAT once a month. Details go missing along the way.
Shop B has invoicing connected to its point of sale. Every sale and every buyer detail is captured on its own.
ZIMRA's TaRMS system also receives input tax data through an integration with FDMS. Shop B's numbers are already where they need to be.
Clean invoices today mean less stress at clearance time.
Three steps for this week
- Ask your fiscal device supplier if it supports the buyer detail fields.
- Connect your point of sale or invoicing tool so the data is captured automatically.
- Once a week, check that every sale has full buyer details.
Rules can change, so confirm the latest with ZIMRA or your accountant.
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