About Elmarc Compliance

We exist so you never have to think about a regulator again.

Elmarc Compliance is a Lusaka-based compliance firm built on one idea: a business should only have to worry about its business. Everything the regulators want is our problem, not yours.

The Elmarc Compliance team collaborating in their Lusaka office

Our story

Compliance in Zambia was built around regulators. We rebuilt it around you.

Our founder spent years inside PACRA watching the same thing happen: founders would register a company, celebrate, and then quietly fall out of compliance because nobody told them about ZRA, NAPSA, NHIMA, Workers Compensation or the council. Every regulator had its own portal, its own queue and its own deadlines.

Elmarc started in 2019 as a two-person filing agency. Today we are a full compliance department for more than a thousand Zambian businesses, and the only firm in the country with a client portal that shows your standing with every regulator in one place.

Our motto says it all: innovation around compliance.

Philosophy

You concentrate on operations. We carry the compliance burden.

Whether you are an established company or a business that does not exist yet, our job is the same: work out every affiliation your nature of business requires, get it done, and keep it done.

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Innovation around compliance

Compliance has not changed in decades. We rebuild the experience around the client, not the regulator.

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You worry about the business, we worry about the rest

Our job is done when compliance stops taking up space in your head.

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Transparent by default

Fixed prices, clear timelines and a portal that shows you exactly what has been done.

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Deadlines are sacred

Every filing is tracked against its due date. Late is not in our vocabulary.

Milestones

From two desks in Foxdale to a thousand compliant businesses.

    2019

    Founded in Lusaka

    Started as a two-person PACRA and ZRA filing agency working from Foxdale.

    2021

    Full-stack compliance

    Added NAPSA, NHIMA, WCFCB and licensing to become a single provider for every regulator.

    2023

    The compliance portal launches

    Clients see PACRA, ZRA and NAPSA status in one place for the first time.

    2025

    1,000 businesses

    Crossed a thousand businesses kept compliant, from sole traders to multinationals.

1,200+Businesses kept compliant
9Regulators covered
98%Filings before deadline
40+Hours saved per client, per year

The team

Compliance people who have sat on the other side of the counter.

Former regulator staff, chartered accountants and product engineers, all obsessed with deadlines.

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Elias Marcus Banda
Founder & Managing Director

Former PACRA registrations officer turned founder. Fifteen years navigating Zambian regulation.

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Mutinta Hichilema
Head of Tax & Payroll

ZICA-qualified accountant who has filed thousands of ZRA returns without a single late penalty.

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Kabwe Chilufya
Head of Client Portal

Product engineer who built the single dashboard Zambian founders kept asking for.

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Grace Tembo
Compliance Lead, Licensing

Specialist in NCC, ZPPA and sector licensing for contractors and suppliers.

Regulators & partners

Every regulator your business answers to, and the partners who help us serve you.

We file with all nine major bodies and work alongside Zambia's banks, innovation hubs and professional associations.

  • PACRAPatents and Companies Registration Agency
  • ZRAZambia Revenue Authority
  • NAPSANational Pension Scheme Authority
  • NHIMANational Health Insurance Management Authority
  • WCFCBWorkers Compensation Fund Control Board
  • NCCNational Council for Construction
  • ZPPAZambia Public Procurement Authority
  • ZDAZambia Development Agency
  • LCCLusaka City Council

Trusted by the best

  • Zanaco
  • Stanbic Bank
  • BongoHive
  • ZICA
  • Lusaka Chamber
  • Airtel Business

Elmarc Compliance works alongside Zambia's banks, hubs and professional bodies, and files with PACRA, ZRA, NAPSA, NHIMA, WCFCB, NCC, ZPPA, ZDA, LCC.

Client stories

Founders who stopped worrying about compliance.

From sole traders to multinationals, our clients share one thing: they never think about a regulator until we tell them it is done.

Before Elmarc, I had three browser tabs open every month just to check whether we owed anything. Now I open one portal and see PACRA, ZRA and NAPSA in one glance.

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Chanda MwilaFounder, Kutemwa Foods

They registered our company, TPIN and NAPSA in the same week and had our tax clearance ready before our first tender closed. That alone paid for the year.

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Bwalya NkondeDirector, Nkonde Civils

Our trademark was filed, published and registered without me setting foot in a PACRA office. The calendar reminders mean we never pay a late penalty anymore.

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Natasha ZuluCEO, Zed Apparel

As a foreign investor, Zambian compliance felt like a maze. Elmarc mapped every affiliation we needed for our sector and handled it end to end.

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Daniel OkaforCountry Manager, Meridian Logistics

Ready to hand over the compliance burden?

Register once, and we handle PACRA, ZRA, NAPSA and every other regulator for you, with a single portal to see it all. Guaranteed on time.

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