jayybzw

Free markets advocate | M&A | Corporate finance | 🇿🇼

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

@begottensun Certains trusts have always been taxable. Just depends on whether the trust is treated as a person or conduit

[Chimbwa @Cde_begar]

🚨|WATCH| Theo Tungwarara son of Paul Tungwarara, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s top investment advisor living larger than a king in Zimbabwe while ordinary Zimbabweans can barely afford bus fare, Watch as the boy lands on a farm in a helicopter—just another casual ride for him. He never wears the same pair of sneakers twice in a month. His leftovers would be a lifetime of luxury for most. This is the reality, a tiny elite soaring above millions who are crushed into nothing. Corruption hasn't just widened the gap, it has turned the poor into shadows while the corrupt grow fatter every single day, feasting on what should feed a nation. The suffering masses shrink smaller and smaller, while a privileged few burn money just to remind them how small they've become.

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

Being an expat teaches you that opportunity exists far beyond the places most people look. You gain perspective, build skills fast, and can create a much stronger financial future back home 🌏

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

The road to mastery involves finding a suitable mentor

[mitsuri @0xmitsurii]

Goldman Sachs banker on how to succeed in high finance.

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Goldman Sachs banker on how to succeed in high finance.

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

Madam Boss let the cat out of the bag. Obviously, ZIMRA wants its cut

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

Naison Marufu has responded to @Zimra_11’s decision to introduce taxes on content creators. Thoughts? : Munotanga mafunga here musati mataura or kuita zvimwe zvinhu.

Some of the things that these government institutions do, they even offend common sense 🙌

You want to tax Content creators, but cannot lobby for them ... Painful...That is the contradiction sitting at the heart of Zimbabwe’s digital economy.

Zimbabwe has no formal monetization agreement with Meta or Google. Content creators are using foreign details ... South African bank accounts, relatives abroad, VPNs .... to unlock what their own country cannot give them. And now ZIMRA wants a cut of money that technically, by platform rules, was never supposed to reach Zimbabwe in the first place .
This is ambush economics.

Content creators are already paying taxes where they are registered ... which is not in Zimbabwe ... because the Ministry of ICT has no formal relationship with Meta. They file where the platform recognizes them. They comply where the system exists. Zimbabwe is simply not on that map.

The government confirmed the gap itself. Minister of ICT Tatenda Mavetera admitted in January 2026 that discussions with Google and Meta are ongoing but acknowledged “limitations” and gave no timeline . Meanwhile, ZIMRA issued Public Notice 25 of 2026 demanding voluntary disclosure by 30 May 2026 .... penalties waived, but interest still applies.

So one arm of government is “engaging” global platforms. The other is taxing income earned through back channels because the engagement produced nothing.

But wasn't the first move supposed to be pushing the Ministry of ICT to lobby for Zimbabwe to be on Meta's monetization map? Shouldn't that have been the opening gambit? Get the country whitelisted. Secure the payout pipeline. Formalize the relationship. Then, and only then, talk about tax withholding, registration thresholds, and voluntary disclosure. Instead, ZIMRA issued deadlines while ICT holds meetings that produce nothing. The cart is not just before the horse ... the cart is demanding fuel from a horse that hasn't been born.

ZIMRA has the power to tax. Does the Ministry of ICT have the power to lobby? Can you walk into Meta's offices and say "monetize Zimbabwe"? Because if you can't, then you're taxing air. You're demanding compliance for a system you haven't built. Creators are paying the price of your diplomatic silence.

Do ZIMRA and the Ministry of ICT ever communicate? The evidence suggests no. Or if they do, they are not listening to each other.

To be clear: using the source-based tax rule, ZIMRA is legally correct. If you create content while sitting in Zimbabwe, they consider the income source Zimbabwean .... even if the payment lands in an SA account. The Double Taxation Agreement with South Africa exists, but that requires disclosure and paperwork most creators have not filed .

It is possible for ZIMRA to track payments through TaRMS, monitoring mobile money and bank transfers that bring foreign earnings back home, and auditing public disclosures of wealth.

It is impossible for ZIMRA to force Meta or Google to write checks directly to Zimbabwean accounts. That is not their mandate and power. They tax what comes in ... they do not create the pipes for it to flow.

It is also hard for the Ministry of ICT delivering a monetization deal while US sanctions remain in place. US-based companies face significant legal risks making payments that could indirectly benefit sanctioned individuals. Even if the government negotiates, compliance costs will outweigh Zimbabwe’s small ad market. Google Adsense pays based on viewer location ... a Zimbabwean audience generates roughly 30 cents per thousand views versus up to $7 for a US audience.
The market is classified as operationally dead for advertisers.

Let's talk about the WhatsApp admin fiasco. 2024. Ministry of ICT floated a tax on WhatsApp group admins. A data protection license, they called it. The policy was so absurd that Meta's Terms of Service don't even allow third parties to charge admin fees for group operation. WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption means ZIMRA cannot see a single message without breaking the protocol. The policy was unenforceable from the first sentence. Yet someone in government said it out loud. Off the cuff. Zero technical understanding. Zero legal grounding. It died in public ridicule ... but it should never have been born.

So ZIMRA is correct to tax undeclared income. The Ministry of ICT is failing to deliver access. Meta terms make the workaround a violation. Sanctions are blocking the official route. The digital advertising market is too small to attract serious platform investment. And two government arms are operating as if they serve different countries.

ZIMRA has no legal relationship with Meta at all. They are demanding tax on income generated through a platform that does not recognize Zimbabwean creators.🤦

If your citizens must break a platform’s terms of service to earn anything, who is really breaking the law? The creator trying to survive? Or the government taxing a transaction it cannot see, cannot enforce, and cannot protect?

Until Zimbabwe gets formal monetization, asking creators to pay tax on income earned through loopholes you cannot close and channels you cannot open is economic ambush.

©The Marketing Maven

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

2025 was Hyrox. 2026 is pilates

[Madisha, Sir @hobo_group]

This sounded so silly in 2009

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

Study history, but do not stop there. Learn across disciplines, or you will become the man with a hammer who sees every problem as a nail

[Mikli @CryptoMikli]

Tony Robbins explains why pattern recognition is one of the most powerful skills for success

“You’ve got to become a student of history. There are patterns that are so clear. If you can recognize patterns, you can learn quickly and you won’t live in fear because it won’t feel like random things are happening to you”

“You have to look at the people who actually succeeded and find out what happened in their lives, what they went through to create that pattern. That’s what I did early on. I went and studied them”

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

Aura sold separately

[𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐖 @CrimeWatchZW]

WATCH | American rapper Rick Ross introduces his friend Scott Sakupwanya.

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

If you’re a citizen of a country, but you’ve lived and worked abroad paying taxes there, why should taxpayers back home spend money to rescue you in a crisis? If you’re taxed globally, it makes sense. If not, why should they come get you?

[autist @litteralyme0]

How life feels when nobody knows where you are or what you're up to

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

Send Larry the liquidator

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[jayybzw @jayyb91]

“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” ~ Warren Buffett

[Happi Zengeni-Manyere @happ_zenge]

JUST IN: OK Zimbabwe enters corporate rescue proceedings.

-Operations have "virtually ground to a halt" as suppliers cut credit lines.

[☥𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐱 @fw_lennox1]

Getting paid while still having backup funds = undefeated feeling

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Rhodesia 1973, a farmworker was made to search for landmines using a pitchfork so the White man could drive safely

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

If you ever doubt the power of small decisions, Watch this…

[TABHOO🇿🇼 @buster_goldie]

Even the outsiders really understand that Zanu Pf is not good for Zimbabwe and ask yourself what will be the future look like life under one party state of Zanu Pf

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

Thomas Sowell argued that long term success depends on parents passing down discipline, responsibility, and strong work habits, because without those foundations even real advantages can disappear over time

[LambChip @_Lembz]

This gentleman perfectly explains why the upper middle class kids are at the highest risk of failure in life and it makes so much sense.

[jayybzw @jayyb91]

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