{"id":102726,"date":"2025-01-04T14:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect"},"modified":"2025-01-04T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:55:24","slug":"fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Tax Comes Into Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Government has officially implemented the Fast Food Tax as part of the 2025 National Budget revenue measures, reported OpenParly.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative, designed to boost government revenue, took effect on January 1, 2025, following President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s signing of the Finance (2025) Bill into law.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube confirmed that a 1% tax will be levied on the sale value of specified fast foods, as detailed in Section 12F of the Value Added Tax Act.<\/p>\n<p>The tax applies to fast foods sold in pre-packaged form or prepared on-site for immediate consumption, whether on or off the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Finance (2025) Act, the fast food tax encompasses:<\/p>\n<p>Pizza<\/p>\n<p>Burgers<\/p>\n<p>Hot Dogs<\/p>\n<p>Shawarma<\/p>\n<p>Tacos<\/p>\n<p>French Fries<\/p>\n<p>Chicken<\/p>\n<p>Doughnuts<\/p>\n<p>Other foods of a similar nature<\/p>\n<p>Fast food businesses throughout Zimbabwe have already raised their prices to accommodate the new tax.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zimbabwe<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Government has officially implemented the Fast Food Tax as part of the 2025 National Budget revenue measures, reported OpenParly. This initiative, designed to boost government revenue, took effect on January 1, 2025, following President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s signing of the Finance (2025) Bill into law. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube confirmed that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":102725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[17324,17540,17539,19],"class_list":["post-102726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-2025-national-budget","tag-fast-food","tag-fast-food-tax","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fast Food Tax Comes Into Effect - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Government has officially implemented the Fast Food Tax as part of the 2025 National Budget revenue measures, report ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fast Food Tax Comes Into Effect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Government has officially implemented the Fast Food Tax as part of the 2025 National Budget revenue measures, report ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-04T12:39:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-04T14:55:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/sm_1735989897.074047.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"521\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Fast Food Tax Comes Into Effect\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-04T12:39:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-04T14:55:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/sm_1735989897.074047.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2025 National Budget\",\"Fast Food\",\"Fast Food Tax\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fast-food-tax-comes-into-effect\",\"name\":\"Fast Food Tax Comes Into Effect - 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