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Zimbabwe

Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Zimbabwe pack carries the chart of accounts (Zimbabwe reference chart of accounts, 157 accounts), 3 tax rates in ZWG, the periodic return (VAT 7 — Return for Remittance of Value Added Tax, 25 boxes), and the financial statements (Statement of financial position, Statement of profit or loss). Last checked on 2026-10-10 against 14 texts of law and official sources.

Country code
ZW
Currency
ZWG
Pack version
0.2.0
Last checked
2026-10-10
Set up Ekwo for ZimbabweThe pack, file by file

What the pack carries

Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
  • default (default) — 157 accounts, for companies
TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
16 taxes at rates of 0, 15, 15.5
domestic, exempt, export, foreign_services_received, import
Periodic declarationThe form the accounts are read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
  • ZW-VAT7 — 25 boxes, filed month or bimonth
When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
  • day 10 of the month after the period
The file it is deposited asThe brick of packages/formats that writes it, where one exists.
  • filed by hand on the administration’s portal
Electronic invoicingThe profile the country imposes, the day it starts, and the text that imposes it.
no profile — no obligation in law

No Zimbabwean statute obliges a business to exchange a structured electronic invoice with another business in the sense Ekwo's vocabulary gives the word: there is no Peppol authority, no published profile and no scheme a party is addressed by, so `profile`, `party_scheme` and `vat_scheme` are null and `obligation` is `none`. What Zimbabwe has instead is fiscalisation: since the Finance Act, 2025, s. 35, a tax invoice under the Value Added Tax Act is a fiscal tax invoice printed by a fiscal device (an electronic tax register, fiscal printer, signature device, fuel device or virtual fiscal device or software application approved by the Commissioner) whose details are transmitted to and signed by ZIMRA's Fiscalisation Data Management System, and which must show valid on the FDMS validation portal. The device signs each receipt, submits it to the Fiscal Device Gateway API and prints a QR code that points to ZIMRA's verification page (Fiscal Device Gateway API Specification v7.2). That is reporting to the tax administration from a certified device, not an exchange between two businesses; the gap is recorded in the README and in docs/international.md, and the socle is not patched to fit it.

Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
  • payable 2110
  • receivable 1155
Bank statementsThe formats this country’s banks send, and whether anything here reads them.
no format named
Payment filesThe formats the country’s banks accept for an outgoing payment.
no format named
Financial statementsThe schemes the chart reports on, and the taxonomy their keys are written against.
  • ZW-PAAB-SFP — 32 lines
  • ZW-PAAB-IS — 10 lines
Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
community no named reviewer
14 sources cited
Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
2026-10-10
Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
0.2.0 — published 2026-10-23
en

Free, and operated

Where the open core stops.

The line is operational, not functional. Everything that keeps working on its own is open core; what needs credentials, a certificate or a channel somebody keeps running is the hosted edition.

ZW-VAT7declaration

Free, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, filed by hand on the administration’s portal, and what it owes is carried to 2110. The deposit number and the administration’s own words come back into your own database.

OperatedTransmission: the credentials, the certificate and a channel somebody keeps running. The return stays yours.

What it was built from

14 sources — the law this pack was read against

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