YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS: PAC adds impetus to tax waivers review tempo

>Barely a month after the Tanzania Govt hiked excise duty on beverages (and tobacco goods, among other items), it has again hiked the tax on beers by an incredible 100 per cent!

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.

The Contractors Registration Board (CRB) 2012 Annual Consultative Meeting identified high taxes on construction equipment as among the major challenges facing the construction industry.

The Bayelsa State Government of Nigeria (http://www.bayelsa.gov.ng) says it has concluded arrangements to host global business leaders between 16th and 18th July, 2014, at its maiden investment and economic forum with the theme ‘Unlocking Bayelsa State’s Economic Potentials’.

Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos, the State Commissioner of Trade, Industry and Investment, Barrister Kemela Okara said the Forum was in line with the present administration’s economic blueprint of a...

Two weeks ago in my article titled “In the Creation of a Good Society,” in the introductory part of it I summarised some thinking and propositions from various political, economic and moral philosophers and thinkers, from both ends of the spectrum, as they opined what entails a good society, especially as is defined by value that characterises such a society.

Today, December 31, is the last day this year, also known as New Year’s Eve, which heralds the beginning of another year, January 1.

One of my favourite columnists in our East African region in this day and age is a professor of Economics at the Dar es Salaam Campus of the Mzumbe University going by the name and style of Dr Honest Prosper Ngowi .

After a little more than two months of strenuous electioneering involving especially two parties on different sides of the Political Divide, Tanzania has finally been ‘given a new’ president.