Every year Tanzania sacrifices TShs 381 billion ($141 million) to tax incentives given to companies. Worse still, research shows that these incentives are not necessary to attract investments to Tanzania. Government needs to remove excessive tax incentives, promote transparency on the tax incentives they give, and coordinate with the East African Community to avoid harmful tax competition. A new…
Geneva, Switzerland, 12 April 2012 – Confidence in the state of the global economy has reached its highest level since the World Economic Forum began its Global Confidence Index four quarters ago. One third of global experts from business, government and civil society say they are confident or very confident in the state of the economy over the coming…
Dar es Salaam, 5th April, 2012: For a number of years Tanzania has failed to reach the projected forecast of one million tourists arriving annually. According to the Director of Tourism Ibrahim Musa, last year the nation was short of the magic number, by about 200,000. “We failed to reach a million tourists because of the economic crisis that…
NAIROBI — Kofi Annan, Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), announced today the appointment of a renowned African business leader from Kenya, Ms Jane Karuku, as the new president of the organization. Ms Karuku was selected after an exhaustive international search process. She joins AGRA from Telkom Kenya a subsidiary of France Telecom-Orange where…
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, April 10, 2012/ — Vodacom Tanzania customers can expect huge roaming savings when travelling to 9 African countries where Vodacom ( http://www.vodacom.com) and it\’s various Partners operates. These countries include South Africa (Vodacom), Mozambique (Vodacom), Lesotho (Vodacom), DRC Congo (Vodacom), Ghana (Vodafone), Kenya (Safaricom), Rwanda (MTN), Uganda (MTN), Uganda (UTL) and Burundi (UCOM). Customers can…
JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIAWIZARA YA MAWASILIANO, SAYANSI NA TEKNOLOJIATANGAZO LA USITISHWAJI WA MATANGAZO YA TELEVISHENI KWA KUTUMIATEKNOLOJIA YA ANALOJIA NA KUHAMIA TEKNOLOJIA YAUTANGAZAJI YA DIJITALI: Nchi yetu itasitisha rasmi matumizi ya teknolojia ya utangazaji ya analojia na kuhamiateknolojia ya dijitali ifikapo tarehe 31 Desemba, 2012 saa sita usiku.Lengo la kufanya hivyo ni kuendana na kasi ya ukuaji wa…
*New York, USA, 4 April 2012* – Despite efforts over the past decade to develop information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, a new digital divide in terms of ICT impacts persists, according to the latest rankings of *The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World*, released today by the World Economic Forum. Sweden…
Dar es Salaam, Mikocheni: Adult Beginners Art Class Time: Friday afternoon 14.00-16.00 starting in April 2012 Subjects: Still life drawing Figure drawing Water colours And other techniques Price: 25.000 per lesson or 200.000 for ten lessons 10 weeks, 2 hours per class Paper, charcoal, pencils provided Paints, brushes by participants Minimum 5 people Teacher: Paul Ndunguru, is a painter,…
*Dar es Salaam: *In order to sustain development in the tourism industry, availability of reliable tourism information for policy formulation and decision making is crucial. – Realizing this importance, participating institutions namely; the Ministry of National Resources and Tourism, Bank of Tanzania, National Bureau of Statistics, Immigration Department, the Zanzibar Commission for Tourism and Tourism Confederation of Tanzania; agreed…
*Dar es Salaam: *In order to sustain development in the tourism industry, availability of reliable tourism information for policy formulation and decision making is crucial. – Realizing this importance, participating institutions namely; the Ministry of National Resources and Tourism, Bank of Tanzania, National Bureau of Statistics, Immigration Department, the Zanzibar Commission for Tourism and Tourism Confederation of Tanzania; agreed…