The Public Private Partnership (Amendment) Act 2018 will permit (see section 15(2) PPP Act, as amended) exempt unsolicited proposals from competitive tendering in the following circumstances: the project shall be of priority to the Government at the particular time and broadly consistent with the government strategic objectives; the private proponent does not require Government guarantee or any … Read more
Please see this pdf version of the revised 2017 Global Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Guide in which we have written a section on Tanzanian PPPs, collated and prepared by Cakmak Attorneys at Law, one of the most respected top-tier law firms in Turkey.
TRA has published a fact sheet with Taxes and Duties at a Glance as at July 2018. Please contact us if you have any comments or questions.
Mining Commission has published Guidelines for Submission of Local Content Plans 2018. Please contact us if you have any comments or questions.
TRA has issued a TRA Tax Amnesty Notice 11 July 2018 further to the Finance Act 2018. A taxpayer must submit form ITX207.01.E which is found on the TRA Website. Please contact us if you have any comments or questions, so we can advise you further.
Copy of Budget Speech 2018 by Minister for Finance and Planning for the estimate of government revenue and expenditure for 2018/19. This shall be debated in Parliament and a resultant Finance Act shall be enacted of the approved provisions. NB not all the proposals are certain to make it through. Please contact us if you have any … Read more
This EWURA report presents the performance of the electricity sector during the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017. Please contact us if you have any comments or questions, so we can advise you further.
Mr Job Ndugai, Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee formed to investigate how Tanzania benefits from gas and oil extraction, has said renegotiating of contracts with all companies engaged in oil and gas sector in the country was inevitable because under the existing PSAs Tanzania will not benefit from its natural resources. See full Article … Read more
USAID has published its Tanzania Investment Policy Assessment 2018 via its East Africa Trade + Investment Hub. Statistics are from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). See: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx The set of investment policy questions that guided the research process are adapted from the World Bank Group. See http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/666341500008847215/pdf/117475-PUBLIC-WP-13-7-2017-12-8-30-SPIRAToolKitGuide.pdfInternational best practice is cited from several … Read more
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dodoma has in May 2018 published a Blueprint for Regulatory Reforms to Improve the Business Environment dated December 2017. The Blueprint provides the Government’s main framework for enabling a holistic review of the business enabling environment (BEE) in order to improve the business climate in Tanzania. It presents key … Read more
Mining – Local Content Regulations 2019
New Mining (Local Content) (Amendments) Regulations 2019 have made some changes to the Mining (Local Content) Regulations 2018, which include: Local shareholding requirement for...
Microfinance Business service providers in Tanzania
Microfinance Act 2018 was enacted by National Assembly on 16 November 2018 (see VELMA Law earlier post) and now the Bank of Tanzania (BOT)...
Statistics information law in Tanzania
Statistics Act 2015 amended (as of September 2018), including as follows: A person shall not collect statistics through surveys or censuses, and shall not disseminate...