Ugandan tax officials set for Dar port deployment

>If a proposal by MPs is adopted, every mobile phone user will pay an annual USh5,000 tax for each handset, a move legislators say will help raise more revenue.

Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) plans to improve performance of its main port, Dar es Salaam, and increase annual cargo traffic from 13.5 million tonnes in 2013 to 18 million tonnes come 2015, which is about 30 per cent growth.

A new tax audit at several Inland Container Depots (ICDs) has revealed that at least 11,884 containers and 2,019 vehicles were cleared from the Dar es Salaam Port without their due taxes being collected.

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Dar es Salaam — A new tax audit at several Inland Container Depots (ICDs) has revealed that at least 11,884 containers and 2,019 vehicles were cleared from the Dar es Salaam Port without their due taxes being collected. This scam denied the government ...
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Tanzania's new president curbs foreign travel for officials, tax exemptions
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DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Tanzania's new president has ordered restrictions on foreign travel by government officials and cuts in tax exemptions, signalling the potential start of fiscal belt-tightening measures by his government. John Magufuli ...
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Topical issues affecting the maritime industry in Africa are expected to feature during the 10th conference of Pan African Association for Ports Cooperation (PAPC) scheduled for Mombasa, Kenya between November 16 and 19.

It sounds like science fiction: unmanned drones carrying emergency medicine zooming above the rolling hills of Rwanda.

The judgment for a case facing seven former senior officials of the National Service Commerce Wing (Suma JKT) has been completed after the Kisutu Resident Magistrates’ Court finished hearing both the prosecution and defence.