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Zimbabwe moved its company register onto a new system under the Companies and Other Business Entities Act. Statutory Instrument 108 of 2025 set a re-registration deadline of 20 April 2026; Statutory Instrument 76 of 2026 moved it to 20 April 2028. The deadline moved, the backlog did not: companies that let annual returns lapse still clear them manually before they can join the new register.
Last verified 10 September 2026. We confirm your timeline in writing before you pay.
A very common story: a company was registered in Zimbabwe years ago, it traded for a while, the family moved, and nothing has been filed since. The name is still yours on paper, the certificate is in a drawer somewhere, and now you want to use it again, or sell an asset it holds, or simply stop it being a problem.
The registry has been moving companies onto the register kept under the Companies and Other Business Entities Act. Statutory Instrument 108 of 2025 set the re-registration deadline at 20 April 2026. Statutory Instrument 76 of 2026 amended it and moved the deadline to 20 April 2028. The deadline moved; the backlog did not. Reporting on the transition describes a hybrid digital and paper process in which companies with historical gaps clear outstanding annual returns manually before they can join the new system, and an extra two years has not shortened that queue for anybody.
Do not read the new date as a reason to wait. What decides the cost of your job is what the register holds against your company today, and every year you leave it is another annual return to file. We check the actual position of your company on the register before we quote you anything beyond the base fee.
If the register shows your company in a state we cannot fix through the normal route, we say so and refund the deposit rather than billing you to discover it.
Annual returns are the filing most dormant companies are behind on. They are filed per year, they carry their own cost per year, and no agent can tell you how many are outstanding without looking. That is why re-registration is quoted as a base fee plus whatever the register shows, and why we look before we invoice.
Once the company is current, the annual return becomes a single dated obligation each year. We track it against your incorporation anniversary and quote the renewal before it is late, which is the whole point of the retainer.
Our fee for company re-registration in Zimbabwe: US$180. Government fees included in the price, not itemised by the registry. Our fee and the government fee are always shown as two separate numbers.
We confirm your timeline in writing before you pay. Prices were last verified on 10 September 2026. The full price list is at ZimCompany pricing.
Usually not, but it may be in the manual clearing route rather than on the digital register. The first step is a register check, which tells us what is outstanding before anyone quotes you a total.
20 April 2028. Statutory Instrument 108 of 2025 originally set 20 April 2026, and Statutory Instrument 76 of 2026 amended it to 20 April 2028. Waiting is still the expensive option: each year that passes is another annual return to file before the company can be brought current.
Yes. They are separate filings, priced per year, and we tell you the number before you pay.
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