Business licences generate Sh5bn fees

In The Citizen on Sunday dated April 20, 2014, I shared my research findings on the legal basis of business licence fees which were imposed by the government in July 2013. In the article I concluded that the business licence fees as introduced by the Finance Act, 2011 by amending the Business Activities Registration Act, 2007 were illegal.

The business community has been complaining against business licence fees which were re-introduced by the government in July last year.

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Fees or no fees, parents to send children to school or face arrest
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Whether they have the school fees or not, parents in Singida region have been ordered to send their graduate pupils to secondary schools or they will be arrested. To implement the command, District Commissioners across Singida region have been ...

>Tanzania Electric Company Limited (Tanesco)  is set to spend more than Sh5 billion on its major rehabilitation project on its machines  at Kidatu and Mtera hydro power plants.

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court will today conduct preliminary hearing of a case of illegal possession of elephant tusks facing three Chinese nationals.

Symbion Power, which stopped its operations, announced yesterday that tests have started on turbines at Ubungo using natural gas from Mnazi Bay in Mtwara.

The government, through its geothermal development company, plans to generate 200MW from the newly discovered underground source of energy by 2020.