VAT ails homeowners, govt told

What are the prospects of meeting the target of revenue collection in 2013/14 fiscal year?

>The government yesterday tabled the Value Added Tax (VAT) Bill, 2014 which among other issues aims at improving a system of collecting revenue and seal loopholes for tax evasion.

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Govt exemption of VAT on tourist services commended
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The Tourism Confederation of Tanzania (TCT) has commended the government for allowing tourism services to continue being exempted from Value Added Tax during the just ended 17th parliamentary session. According to the statement availed to The ...

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Private sector lobbies for govt to lower VAT from 18 to 16 per cent
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The private sector has recommended the government reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) from the current 18 per cent to 16 per cent, the Parliamentary committee on Budget informed the National Assembly yesterday. Making the presentation yesterday in the ...
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>Some MPs are planning to take Finance minister Saada Mkuya to task for allegedly failing to release money to the Road Fund and Rural Energy Agency (REA), claiming the failure amounts to violation of the laws of the land.

Local govt authorities told to go electronic
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LOCAL government authorities countrywide have been advised to adopt the electronic revenue collection system, to boost returns and control the habitual carbon-paper cheats. Opening the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association of Local Authorities in ...

The National Trade Policy, which came into being in 2003, has not been able to spur Tanzania’s export growth as originally envisioned.

Tanzania needs a strong political will to have high-quality care for every mother and newborn, an expert has said.

A good number of employees in both the public and private sectors are masquerading as procurement officials, the government was told here yesterday.